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Story: Analysts welcome 3's flat-rate broadband
Roberto Maietta
As I mentioned on this forum some time ago, telco's are engaged in gouging, through variety of means.
The artificial walls they've put up are being slowly eroded by tech-savvy users in the first case, and I cant help but feel its just a question of time before these early adopters give way to more mainstream users adopting the "bypassing technologies".
The usage of technologies like Skype, unquestionably will bite into their revenues. But, what do you expect, when their charges are so high? So they need to grow their revenue base another way, as this article seems to be suggesting.
I cant wait for the day when we have flat rate charges, even when you're overseas. This is certainly a long way off, and I dont see this happening any time soon, I have to say, for quite a variety of reasons. But, its something to look forward to.
If the telcos actually put aside their gouging, and get together to create an environment thats truly "fixed price", then you'll see the whole mobile internet space explode, with new, more functional handsets, as manufacturers struggle to keep pace with the demand from now-free consumers.
I suspect its in the interests of manufacturers and telcos to go down this road, as the current mobile internet space has been, correctly, described as "a bust".
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