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February 01, 2005
A day in the Blogsphere…
I believe that Aswath understands what Bellster is about.
Om is still trying to figure us out. ;-)
The Bellster team understands that asterisk “is not for broke techno-lightweights” and that the cost of distance calling is nothing like it used to be.
Om wrote:
"However, there is an economic reality most over look. The current long distance prices are much lower than local rates. If you don't believe me, then check your phone bill. It costs more to make calls from San Francisco to Palo Alto, then it does from San Francisco to London. Even VoIP calls are so microscopically cheap, that I don't see the economic value to it.
This is an idea which has been tried before and in the early 1990s, a whole industry cropped up around it."
and we wonder out loud: “Does he realize that we were the ones who did this for the first time back in 1995?" and then we ask: "and it has to be economically viable to be used?”
Bellster is a platform for innovation. This will become more obvious over time.
Bellster has enough routes available at the moment where it can now reach over 10% the world’s population after only a week!
Free World Dialup (“FWD”) is viable, at least as a loss leader for other products and services. but, FWD can only reach a tiny percentage of the population.
On the other hand, can FWD is easily used by 3% of the world's population where as Bellster is probably limited to maybe 0.0002% (or less) unless someone buys a turnkey system.
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Tuesday Bellster update:
Number of Registered Bellster Nodes: 859
Number of Nodes Online right now: 102
Number of Routes available right now: 907
According to Google, there are now: 116,000 hits on the term "Bellster."
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Posted by jeff on February 1, 2005 11:55 PM | Permalink
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Comments
Jeff, I am not sure I fully get it either. But I have some specific questions that you will be able to answer them.
1. What are "routes" in your statistics? Why isn't it "102 choose 2"?
2. Why do you require an Asterisk? Why can't IPP or a SIPURA phone be used?
3. Will you be able to shed some light on T&C issue? Do you know that it is not a problem or you expect the users to determine for themselves?
Thanks in advance
Aswath
Posted by: Aswath at February 2, 2005 12:53 AM