Will this end Telco dominance?

[UncleFai]

http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/pre...calls-today-thanks-app-spore-startup-20140805

"Its app provides all mobile calls at no charge, including those made to non-nanu mobile users and even landlines."

 

[ninelives]

thanks for sharing Unclefei ! this time you are "updated" than me/us. no kidding. thanks again.

 

[Kit]

Singtel will buy out Gentay.......

back to square one.

 

[ninelives]

by 2nd quarter , whatsapp also can call free. let see if Singtel can afford to buy it or not,.

 

[huatman]

suppose it use mobile date network (GPRS/3G/4G), so telco will lower the date bundle even more?

 

[Kit]

by 2nd quarter , whatsapp also can call free. let see if Singtel can afford to buy it or not,.

They can buy them or start charging them. The govt still has a stake in Stinktel for a good reason..... they make $$$

 

[Lawrence Quek]

our market shares is too small for the competitor to make an impact.

take petrol prices for example. one up/lower price, the rest follow suit within an hr or so.

there isnt much we can do sometime.

 

[armadillo]

Thanks for the update, very interesting.
Currently only available for Android users.

 

[An drew]

I tried Viber once and I still went back to a plan. This one supposed to work on poor network environment but you still need a data plan. At this rate the telcos will unilaterally reduce our data from 12GB to 2GB to 1GB and still increase the price.

 

[user12343]

no matter what these *free* VOIP services offer, they still need some form of packet-data services as the backhaul, be it wifi or GPRS/3G/4G services to work. so Telcos will increase the price for data subscription and it is still LPPL.

 

[diver-hloc]

As long as we still need to use Teleco's 'Data Plan'... they'll survive...

 

[junction88]

With almost everyone using some form texting more than voice communication.
Free voice communication doesn't save us a lots.

QQ, WhatsApp, Line, WeChat, Skype, FaceTime, etc already have free voice & video communication but how many of us really fully utilize it ?

In order for Telco to make more money on subscribers, they just have to increase data plan charges from time to time.