more on anti-gripe about Skype purchase

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Patrizia <patrizia () worldonip com>
Date: September 21, 2005 4:00:07 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] anti-gripe about Skype purchase



Every increase in the value or valuation of Skype or equivalent is "an
increase" in the value of the telecoms.

What users never saw was that Skype was (and never wanted to be) nothing
else than a NEW TELECOM, which used new and more powerful  
infrastructures.
The differences were:

1) It used lines that didn't belonged to them (but customers' owned or
better leased and paid for from the customers)

2) It had lower prices because it just had to charge the last mile,  
being
the trip on the Internet already paid, leased by the customer.

3) It was going to become even a bigger monopoly than the actual ones,
because most of the Telecoms, at least in Europe are national.

4) It was even worse because used proprietary protocols and codec,  
making it
an obligation for the customer to use THEIR last mile.

If you hate monopolies and want to demolish them, YOU HAVE to propose  
the
opposite scenario.
Free market for all the small entrepreneus who want to work and invest.
Better service, because there is competition.

Besides, I laugh thinking of a thread to the Telephone companies.
Now a day their biggest revenue IS the MOBILE market and everybody who
understands a little bit of wireless understands also that WI-FI at  
least
now, IS NOT a thread to their incomes...

May be in the future, but in a different way, not certainly building  
copies
of the old telecoms.
Whay people didn't understand is the big potential of VoIP which is  
in the
possibility of having "Customers' owned infrastructures".


-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: 20 September 2005 20:13
To: Ip Ip
Subject: [IP] anti-gripe about Skype purchase



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From: Andrew Lippman <lip () media mit edu>
Date: September 20, 2005 2:04:15 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Subject: anti-gripe about Skype purchase


Every increase in the value or valuation of Skype or equivalent is a
decrease in the value of the telecoms.  That's the message of the Skype
purchase, and it's good news for us.  The next buyout will be even  
larger.

andy lippman



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