A message on this forum prompted me to think in the long term. What I see happenning is this:
1. Telecom forces everyne over to 0867, Everyone is pissed off.
2. Telecom degrades quality of connection for 0867 and/or charges for it. Many switch to xtra.
3. A HUGE market opportunity opens for a company that can provide cheap, fast(er), dedicated (24/7) internet access (eg. Saturn).
4. This company(companies) moves in, and captures most of the market back from telecom by providing access at a reasonable rate, relaible, dedicated, and OUTSIDE THE TELECOM NETWORK.
5. End result: Through this chain of events, telecom has lost control of the Internet alltogether, and within a few years, telecom is a dwindling company for those small number of people who still insist on amking direct calls through them (nostalgia, maybe:))
Feel free to comment, it seems a reasonable rough outline of what is likely to happen if this continues
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A message on this forum prompted me to think in the long term. What I see happenning is this:
:))
1. Telecom forces everyne over to 0867, Everyone is pissed off.
2. Telecom degrades quality of connection for 0867 and/or charges for it. Many switch to xtra.
3. A HUGE market opportunity opens for a company that can provide cheap, fast(er), dedicated (24/7) internet access (eg. Saturn).
4. This company(companies) moves in, and captures most of the market back from telecom by providing access at a reasonable rate, relaible, dedicated, and OUTSIDE THE TELECOM NETWORK.
5. End result: Through this chain of events, telecom has lost control of the Internet alltogether, and within a few years, telecom is a dwindling company for those small number of people who still insist on amking direct calls through them (nostalgia, maybe
Feel free to comment, it seems a reasonable rough outline of what is likely to happen if this continues