[asterisk-biz] OT: Anti-dumping laws?

[Rehan Allah Wala]

Very interesting topic for sure :)

and very interesting point made here.

Looking forward to read more on this...




> This is partially off topic, as it's not strictly Asterisk-related...
> 
> I know the anti-dumping laws in the US manufacturing and trade
> industries are geared toward international suppliers and protection of
> US companies. I'm curious, though, are there similar laws for technology
> (and, if not, should there be)?
> 
> I was thinking about this this morning as I read the news about the
> first non Grand-Central users getting the Google Voice invites, and as I
> was going over the Google Voice services. One of them is calls to
> anywhere in the US for free, and it got me wondering. Currently, Google
> Voice has no ads, so there's no incoming revenue to offset the cost of
> termination to US phone lines. Which means, in essence, that Google is
> likely giving this service away purely as a loss-leader to grab users
> and drive out competition. Will the terms change later on? Hard to say.
> Like all things Google, the service will likely remain tagged 'Beta'
> long after it's one of the top-used services on the Internet.
> 
> Would then Skype be able to come back and do the same thing as an effort
> to recapture any lost users? Or would that fall under some sort of
> anti-dumping umbrella because it's now a foreign company that's giving
> services away below cost?
> 
> Do services even have similar legal fair-trade protections?
> 
> Any ideas about the whole thing?
> 
> N.
> 
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Rehan Ahmed AllahWala
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