Maybe the iPhone has it right: why bother making calls?
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 12:07AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Citation Post, telecoms

In case you didn't catch the Futuram iPhone episode . . .

FT front-pager that notes mobile operators predict app sales will outpace call revenues by 2013. Naturally, this raises a lot of those "net neutrality" issues (net neutrality is the principle that says deliverers of content shouldn't prioritize certain sites over others--for a price), because the telecoms want to start charging the Googles and YouTubes for all that flow.

Why?  Content is once again king, so operators are asking themselves, as one lawyer puts it, "Am I just a dumb pipe delivering that content, or can I secure a piece of that pie?"

Eventually, new pricing regimes must emerge and we all pay more for everything.

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