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Disrupting International & roaming calls

June 19, 2009

Analysis of:Google Voice secret weapon: number portability | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

I think above all, the key feature of Gvoice is the simpler and cheaper international communications, using one's existing phone. To give an idea, a call from EU or US to most emerging countries would cost 2 up to 6$ per minutes. This high premium price is even worse on roaming situation. There is no telco investment that justifies such high price for calls. Gvoice with the single number and platform trigered calls figure out what most incumbent telco operators have fail, mostly by greed. From a USSD command, u can trigger a remote platfomr and provide both caller and callee ID and the Platform would call and bridge both parties. This allow to use at maximum the IP links up the last mile, making the cal cheaper. Now, how Google will negotiate with the operators is still to figure out.

Prepaid, a better, free way of consuming telecomunications.

May 19, 2009

Analysis of:Is prepaid growth an illusion? | telephonyonline.com

In emerging markets, prepaid ratio can grow up to 99%,. The prepaid uptake is a truely sustained trend Prepaid is not always related to low value customers. It's a FREE, Better way of consuming. Getting bound to an operator for years, with frozen benefits frozen is not appealing. Monthly bill, overspending, ... Prepaid is also growing in the financial ind. The telco industry has been sustained by prepaid in the high growth markets.  Lower ARPU is complemented by a Mass Market penetration. Also, nobody says the price plan for prepaid is cheaper than postpaid. Cost saving here are really the illusion. Count the prepaid subscribers does not make sense. Thhe traffic ( Nb of calls served ...) matter.

Billing vendors dream versus consumers expectations

May 4, 2009

Analysis of:ISPs need to rally around metered billing | blog.telephonyonline.com

Internet Access is and will probably never be just like food, water, etc ... as many billing vendors and related ISP clients tend to think. In the mobile arena, stupid high volume based charging has prevented mobile data to take off for years until "all you can eat" charging system emerged. Users do not see the value of paying for "difficulty" measurable bandwidth. their expectation and willingness to pay stands at tapping a web page or application and getting it right away. Anything else will lead to confusion. Last, consumers understand that metered billing is all about getting them pay more, at long term. Who would accept such ?

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