{"id":1288,"date":"2005-04-21T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2005-04-21T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T14:18:58","slug":"skype_telco_dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Skype &#038; Telco Disintermediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telepocalypse.net\/archives\/000662.html\">Martin Geddes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It would be a tragic mistake to underestimate the potential market power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a> is accumulating. According to Skype&rsquo;s own figures from VON Canada, they&rsquo;re sustaining a growth rate of 1000% a year. Just another 2 years of this growth and they would have over 200 million concurrent users online. This is not beyond plausibility given how Skype and broadband are symbiotically driving adoption of one-another; the addressable market is exploding too.<\/p>\n<p>That means even if you&rsquo;re a mega-telco &mdash; a Verizon or a Vodafone &mdash; you&rsquo;re screwed. You can create your own Private Voice Application, and start marketing it to your early-adopter users, but who ya gonna call? Ain&rsquo;t nobody but Skypers out there. Want some Skype presence in your Vodafone-branded VoIP app? Gonna cost ya!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Geddes: It would be a tragic mistake to underestimate the potential market power Skype is accumulating. According to Skype&rsquo;s own figures from VON Canada, they&rsquo;re sustaining a growth rate of 1000% a year. Just another 2 years of this growth and they would have over 200 million concurrent users online. This is not beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}