[asterisk-biz] Google's voice product [OT]

[Mitul Limbani]

Sorry for top posting.

Yeah even I have been thinking as to how long a company survive on a  
business model such as google or even for that matter $19/month  
unlimited us,ca,uk landline etc (vonage style)

Vonage style also needs a substantial user base which needs run into  
few millions before they want to start seeing profits, their  
termination vendors would be charging them something for sure for  
every call, no matter how big the volume would be, coz termination  
vendors main source of income percentage wise is still Voice (although  
VAS does contribute to their bottom line but not more then 25%-40% )

So its surely is something to wait and watch ( some time back skype  
was also offering unlimited free calls into US/CA, I don't till how  
long they were able to sustain)

Interesting thread and we shall see a lot of insights from different  
people, having benefits for all community members for sure.

Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions Pvt Ltd,
The Enterprise Linux Company(r),
http://www.enterux.com/


On 18-Mar-09, at 1:03, SIP <sip at arcdiv.com> wrote:

> Nitzan Kon wrote:
>> --- On Tue, 3/17/09, SIP <sip at arcdiv.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> See... I'm picturing Google meshing this with Google
>>> Talk, which DOES do VoIP. It would be silly for them NOT to
>>> mesh the two products together, and likely trivial to do.
>>> I'm guessing we just haven't seen that bit yet.
>>>
>>
>> So.... who's going to pay the bill? a neat calling card system
>> is one thing (read: pennies on the dollar) - but a full on
>> phone service for free is something even Google can't finance
>> for long. They'd need to charge to make any sort of profit
>> out of this. It'll just turn into a Skype Call-Out copycat.
>> Working? sure. But it's still not a niche.
>>
>> IMHO there is absolutely no way advertisements will pay the
>> bill. This isn't email where it costs a whopping dollar to
>> service a customer for a year - PSTN calls have a very real
>> price, and it's not nearly low enough for a non-paid model
>> to work... yet.
>>
>>
> That's what I want to know. I don't see it possible to sustain the
> current business model, which leads me to believe this is simply the
> start of things, and it will change as time progresses. What they  
> say is
> the business model NOW is not what it will look like a year down the  
> road.
>
> We'll see. Should be interesting to watch.
>
> N.
>
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