PX EliezerPremium
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| ATT Wireless fights to survive VoIP, discovers call hunting! News excerpts:
AT&T hopes to reverse a trend that has seen Skype and other Internet telephony services start to displace its voice-call business over the past few years. The carrier is now encouraging outside programmers to create voice and messaging apps that use its customers’ traditional mobile phone numbers....
One early application using the AT&T interface is Myanumber, a service geared toward families. A child need only remember one number: if Dad doesn’t answer, the call goes to Mom’s phone; if she doesn’t pick up, it gets forwarded to a friend....
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 jduffyPremium
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Cincinnati, OH | LOL, it is sort of a Google Voice. Call one number and it rings them all. Why hunt? AT&T is so late at coming to the party with innovation.
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Now that ATT has locked themselves into fixed-rate unlimited voice plans, shoving messaging or voice over to the dialer (either the sender or receiver) makes no sense anymore as it won't increase revenue.
They'd be better off pursuing a strategy of either corralling or finding a way of monetizing skype, 3rd party messaging, or voip apps. |
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PX EliezerPremium
join:2008-08-09
Hutt River
kudos:13 Reviews:
·callwithus
·voip.ms
·Optimum Voice
·Vitelity VOIP
·Gizmo5
| And they had closed down their good VoIP service, CallVantage.
They mistakenly thought that their U-Verse fibre offering was going to be milk and honey. I think it fell short.
Now they have all their hopes and dreams on AT&T Wireless so the thought of losing out to VoIP apps that don't use the AT&T minutes, must terrify them.... |
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VoIP over cellular doesn't even work well enough over cellular to even want to use it. Plus it seems like cellular voice minutes are in huge abundance and easily acquired now so i'm not sure what the issue is there either.
What kind of VoIP service does ATT offer and how much does it cost? I saw it on their site but no pricing. |
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said by PX Eliezer:....Now they have all their hopes and dreams on AT&T Wireless so the thought of losing out to VoIP apps that don't use the AT&T minutes, must terrify them....
Well, they're not particularly terrified of voip. In addition to competing with ATT's landline service (which rubbed some stockholders the wrong way), CalVantage offering never was able to produce the desired profit margins necessary.
Stockholders in general are happy with the way ATT has moved data into a real revenue driver for their wireless division. But what has us stymied is they have effectively 'capped' revenue on voice, by offering less costly unlimited plans. Which we've been shown has increased voice revenue, short term. But IMO does nothing for long term voice revenue growth. In this reality, it doesn't matter how much traffic ATT is able to drive onto their voice network, the revenue stays the same.
The only way I see moving forward, is to find ways to monetize voip and other messenger type apps. Bucket level per-byte-billing is a start, but only really effective with high bandwidth uses, primarily video. There may be ways to make voip apps more bandwidth 'expensive', such as adding additional wrappers onto UDP traffic or somehow forcing uncompressed codecs on their LTE network. |
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JJ_GTAPremium
join:2009-04-01
Ontario | reply to zephxiii
ATT does offer SIP trunking called IP Flexible Reach.
»www.business.att.com/enterprise/···runking/ |
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jduffyPremium
join:2006-08-20
Cincinnati, OH | reply to PX Eliezer
I had two CallVantage lines when they decided to close down the service. It was great. Very high quality. Made no sense to close it down in my opinion.
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