Skype, WhatsApp etc and free calls (death of phone bills?)

Kermit.de.frog

How are the phone companies going to survive?

Are we now officially in a post paying-for-calls world?

Massive change in last 5 years when you think about it.

Or do you reckon governments might crack down on Skype and the like for vested interests?

Is it the end of the phone bill?

Mickeroo

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

How are the phone companies going to survive?

Are we now officially in a post paying-for-calls world?

Massive change in last 5 years when you think about it.

Or do you reckon governments might crack down on Skype and the like for vested interests?

Is it the end of the phone bill?

How are using those apps without paying a "phone" company exactly?

gandalf

They are deversifying their businesses. Providing triple play or quad play bundles of phone, broadband, TV and mobile for consumers and full Comms and it solutions for business.

McMurphy

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

How are the phone companies going to survive?

Are we now officially in a post paying-for-calls world?

Massive change in last 5 years when you think about it.

Or do you reckon governments might crack down on Skype and the like for vested interests?

Is it the end of the phone bill?

Not really, Skype has been around now what? 12 years maybe more (without googling) and I know I've had WhatsApp since I last owned an iPhone, which was 08(I think).

Phone bills might be reducing, moderately.

But they're not going away anytime soon, if ever.

Kermit.de.frog

Mickeroo wrote: »

How are using those apps without paying a "phone" company exactly?

Never said they were

I'm talking about the Vodafones and Threes of this world.

bee06

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Never said they were

I'm talking about the Vodafones and Threes of this world.

I doubt they were ever making money on calls. Why do you think you get x free minutes etc. The money is locking someone into a 24 month contract.

scamalert

bee06 wrote: »

I doubt they were ever making money on calls. Why do you think you get x free minutes etc. The money is locking someone into a 24 month contract.

straight on point its all those chasing the new iphones x samsungs etc that get stuck with 50e contracts for 2 years, nothing to do with likes of whatsapp in this case.

Reati

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Is it the end of the phone bill?

24 month contracts for a subsidized phone and data. It's all about data now.

theteal

So we’re paying for data instead of minutes/texts. The service provider is still needed. What has changed?

buckwheat

theteal wrote: »

So we’re paying for data instead of minutes/texts. The service provider is still needed. What has changed?

In a nutshell