It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by mjfern » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

It’s Official: Voice is Worthless
gigaom.com

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by Groxx » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 6:00 AM UTC

Important detail: it's about "voice", not "[Google] Voice", though that's how it looks in the title. To me, at least.

Basically, data plans are netting the cell companies more and more money, while voice plans are netting less and less, with the inevitable crossing-point somewhere in the near future (they're saying 2013, by just following the trendlines).

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by blocke » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 6:09 AM UTC

So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition.

Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle down to prepaid. I'd like off the contract bandwagon please.

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by davidedicillo » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:05 AM UTC

It's time for carriers to understand that charging per minute or per message (even more ridiculous) are concepts of the past. It's all about data.

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by schintan » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:22 AM UTC

davidedicillo wrote: post #4

It's time for carriers to understand that charging per minute or per message (even more ridiculous) are concepts of the past. It's all about data.

agreed..the next generation networks will carry voice as data packets itself so this had to happen sometime.However, I doubt how will this benefit the consumers as long as they are going to put caps on data usage.

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by danilocampos » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:43 AM UTC

Boner-kill: You have to be subscribed to their criminally-overpriced unlimited messaging plan to get down on the unlimited mobile calling. Had to screw it up somehow, huh AT&T?

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by joeybaker » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:47 AM UTC

Summarized: as tech advances, the same services become cheaper.

Add this article to the "no duh" category.

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by georgieporgie » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

As someone who has always hated talking on the phone, I agree.

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by mikeklaas » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 8:44 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #2

Important detail: it's about "voice", not "[Google] Voice", though that's how it looks in the title. To me, at least. Basically, data plans are netting the cell companies more and more money, while voice plans are netting less and less, with the inevitable crossing-point somewhere in the near future (they're saying 2013, by just following the trendlines).

Huh? Any capitalization of 'voice' in a headline reads 'Google Voice' to you?

Re: It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

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Post by jasonkester » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 8:47 AM UTC

Uh, has anybody here ever racked up $60 worth of mobile calls in a single month? That pretty much describes my pay-as-you-go fees for an entire year.

So, sure, if you pay them for more phone calls than you could ever possibly make, they'll let you make as many phone calls as you like.

This reads less like news and more like a placement by whichever carrier is offering this plan.