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What's Next in Telecommunications?
CNet is reporting that with the telecommunication industry's annual powwow coming up the hot button seems to be television rather than phones. From the article: "Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it's easy to see that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change. The traditional telecommunications market has already begun consolidating in anticipation. [...] Putting itself back together two decades after being broken apart, the new AT&T faces an entirely different competitive environment. Phone companies and cable companies will soon be competing directly with each other not just for broadband customers, but also for TV and phone customers."
you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Television, the new phone-killer!"
Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.
buy tinfoil
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Welcome to the Internet.
Phone Voip with a low-latency connection
TV Video Torrents
Radio Webcasting
The thing is you need a Real good connection to use those.Internet will slowly supersede all communication methods.
I'm so confused. :(
Disclaimer: I was laid off after 21 years from this company... go figure
Well, if my observations offer any insight (they probably don't)... the company from which I was laid off was hot and heavy in one of their most important endeavors at the time: converting their public facing web presence to C#/.Net technology. I certainly had many other suggestions for important work to be done.
So, let that be one indicator of how prepared the telcos may or may not be for the shifting winds in the telecommunications industry.
What I'd really like to see next in telecommunications is the ability to call someone from anywhere, speak into a device, and have a person on the other end hear what I say, all the time, every time. Once they get that working, the other things will be nice too.
Think of it, those boring little static images you get on your snail mail. What if they could show you the latest Madonna video, or episode of Lost? Think of how much money the music, television and movie industries could make if they could beam their content to stamps?
... unless of course your credit card is maxed out from all the subscription service fees your paying to get tv, music, movies and video on a stamp.
I am surprised Apple isn't realizing the potential of showing videos and playing music on stamps. I mean, the iPod Nano is slightly bigger then a stamp.
I am also surprised Google hasn't figured this out yet, all that wasted space on a letter that Google could put ad words and Google adds on. That stamp is just dying to display Google content.
Also, think of the potential of not having to buy extra postage stamps when the Post office increases their delivery charges on a monthly basis. You could setup a stamp website that takes people's credit cards and automatically bills them for the increase in delivery charges and update the stamps face value, while the letter is CURRENTLY in transit! The post office could change their postage fees as easily as Gas companies change the price of oil!!!! No more returned mail for insufficient funds
Why is this so laughable, I mean, they thought TV on cellphones would work, why not stamps?
I don't know, I think the telecommunications industry has exhausted all their ideas for cell phones, I mean, TV on cellphones was so last week. The future is in Stamps I tell you, STAMPS!
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.