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December 23, 2003

Providing a service much like 1-800-OK-Cable

Earlier today I started thinking about the free calling promotion that I've been doing with Free World Dialup the past week and what I realized was that what I'm promoting is the use of voice over broadband in general with the hope of getting people to try it with the expectation that once they try it, they will stick with it.

One problem with this model / analogy is that unlike the cable companies in the US which operate in their own unique regions, the FWD effort is worldwide and we are not affiliated with anyone else other than ourselves. Also, there isn't anyone else helping to subsidize my efforts yet.

So while I do hope that we will be successful to get many new people to try leveraging their use of DSL and Cable for voice communications, once they are hooked and they decide to subscribe to one of the various service providers available around the world, we have in effect, "done our job" and there is nothing yet to directly show for this. ;-)

I realize the script just isn't finished. I'm giving myself the rest of my vacation to try to figure this one out.

Posted by jeff on December 23, 2003 10:11 PM | Permalink

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Comments

very good

Posted by: noam at December 24, 2003 01:28 PM