http://www.voip-sol.com/free-googlephones/ VoIP News and Information Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:06:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.voip-sol.com/free-googlephones/comment-page-1/#comment-961 IP Hosted PBX Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:16:25 +0000 http://www.voip-sol.com/free-googlephones/#comment-961 [...] Pat Phelan asks where will it all end, in regards to all this free VOIP and VoIM going around. How long can a free model sustain itself? Will ad-paid models like that of Globe7 be accepted? Will Google’s rumored free phones in return for ad-watching take over the world? I had a second chat last Friday with James Wanless, President and COO - one of three entrepreneurial spirits behind Talkster, a new mobile-to-VoIM service that just relaunched on Monday. He made a very astute comment to me regarding free services, and wrote The great race (to zero). I’m paraphrasing him (so any misquote is my fault), but he said that so many [startups] think that giving away everything for free and grabbing a subscriber list is sufficient enough for someone with deep pockets to buy them up. He then pointed out that while Skype gave away a lot, they still had a monetization plan that they implemented, including CallOut minutes. [...] [...] Pat Phelan asks where will it all end, in regards to all this free VOIP and VoIM going around. How long can a free model sustain itself? Will ad-paid models like that of Globe7 be accepted? Will Google’s rumored free phones in return for ad-watching take over the world? I had a second chat last Friday with James Wanless, President and COO – one of three entrepreneurial spirits behind Talkster, a new mobile-to-VoIM service that just relaunched on Monday. He made a very astute comment to me regarding free services, and wrote The great race (to zero). I’m paraphrasing him (so any misquote is my fault), but he said that so many [startups] think that giving away everything for free and grabbing a subscriber list is sufficient enough for someone with deep pockets to buy them up. He then pointed out that while Skype gave away a lot, they still had a monetization plan that they implemented, including CallOut minutes. [...]

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