Cutting call costs

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http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6424

ANY COMPANY promising to cut the cost of making phone calls is sure to attract the attention of South Africa's cash-strapped consumers. However, until now that's been the domain of foreign technologies, such as Skype and SA companies targeting the corporate market.

 

[dd1313]

So they have a website

DD

 

[ColinR]

So they have a website

Taking a chance here as to whether that's a question or a comment..

Yeigo

 

[Johand]

That creates a situation where the cellular companies have the capability to block Yeigo should its service become too successful. But that's unlikely, as the cellular networks are desperate to recoup the investments they've made in their 3G networks and VoIP services have the potential to generate substantial traffic and therefore revenues on the data networks.

WTF? How does this make sense? Would the networks allow their voice revenue to be eaten up just to justify the expenditure of the data network? And make less money? Furthermore - 3G networks is NOT JUST ABOUT DATA.

 

[Franna]

See Vodacom increasing the rates for VOIP data traffic to R25/MB sooner than later...

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Java Version please!! I don't know a single person who owns the handsets capable of running Yeigo. And Java is definately where its at, look at mxit as an example

 

[Tns]

yet again it supports only a few models.

 

[jetpacman]

I think the networks are going to sit back and watch this first before deciding what to do. It would be suicide for them not to do something if it does grow big.

The biggest limitation to this is that a relatively small amount of phones are capable of running this. I am not going to upgrade my Nokia 5140 until it ceases to function and then maybe a I will go for a "smartphone" I personally dont like the slow responsiveness of the smart phones having a tried a few of them on loan from colleagues. The fact that there isnt a Java client is probably keeping the networks comfortable right now. But if a Java client were feasable with their codec , this would mean that it would become something that can grow like Mxit. Then the networks are going to have to have to react to save their revenues. Just check your phonebill if you make a lot of business calls and tell me if your voice calls are cheaper than your data usage. I doubt this will be a chance for networks to happily increase usage of their 3G infrastructure and in turn forsake their precious voice revenues.