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Carrie · 09-09-2005

Maybe the freebie users have to look at ads while they're making the free P2P calls?
I dunno. I'd never heard of them before reading this article. (Unless they've got internet calling products under other names and they're the parent company, maybe I've heard of the product names.)

Google's got a huge and very loyal userbase; anything they offer at this point has got a damn good future if run correctly.

eBay also has a huge userbase, but it's not loyal, and it's pretty niched - I'm not sure how they're planning on presenting a crossover to their users from selling nicnacs to buying/setting up/using a microphone* to make phone calls, but I wish them the best.

*Especially when their users are used to having portable phones that let them walk around the house; a headset limits you to 4'-6' from your computer unless you go for the much more expensive wireless system. Also many of the users are still dial-up which depends on their phone line, and I'd guess at least half of the ones on broadband are using DSL which also depends on a phone line - so they're not going to see the point of spending the money and going through all that trouble to save a penny per minute when they've already got a phone.

It'll be a while before landlines are dinosaurs, before fiber optics replaces traditional phone lines, or even before internet connectivity is coming through power lines en masse - in the interim, companies offering VoIP or wireless long-distance deals have a good opportunity to make some cash. Wireless far more than VoIP in the short-term while the other methods come online and start to propogate.

09-09-2005	#16
Carrie Eternal Newbie Respin bullshit press Your Comments Are Welcomed Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Inside your monitor Posts: 2,850	Re: Ebay to buy skype for $2 - 3Billion? Maybe the freebie users have to look at ads while they're making the free P2P calls? I dunno. I'd never heard of them before reading this article. (Unless they've got internet calling products under other names and they're the parent company, maybe I've heard of the product names.) Google's got a huge and very loyal userbase; anything they offer at this point has got a damn good future if run correctly. eBay also has a huge userbase, but it's not loyal, and it's pretty niched - I'm not sure how they're planning on presenting a crossover to their users from selling nicnacs to buying/setting up/using a microphone* to make phone calls, but I wish them the best. *Especially when their users are used to having portable phones that let them walk around the house; a headset limits you to 4'-6' from your computer unless you go for the much more expensive wireless system. Also many of the users are still dial-up which depends on their phone line, and I'd guess at least half of the ones on broadband are using DSL which also depends on a phone line - so they're not going to see the point of spending the money and going through all that trouble to save a penny per minute when they've already got a phone. It'll be a while before landlines are dinosaurs, before fiber optics replaces traditional phone lines, or even before internet connectivity is coming through power lines en masse - in the interim, companies offering VoIP or wireless long-distance deals have a good opportunity to make some cash. Wireless far more than VoIP in the short-term while the other methods come online and start to propogate.