Brilliant. Poetic. Bombastic.
The strong, joyful feelings that are streaming through my body after I read the Skype PR on Reuters at 1.29pm EDT are only disrupted by all the phone calls coming through my VoIP. Skype is changing the game - again - and offering free calls to any phone number in the US or Canada. It's absolutely hands down, the most brilliant move anyone has done - including all the community hype - within the Internet space this year.
Two years ago Google scared the living daylights out of Yahoo! (as well as AOL and Hotmail) by offering a faster, easier webmail with 250x the commonly offered storage. Yahoo! was quick enough to respond with more storage and later on with an excellent new beta.
This time it's not a fellow Internet company that is solely feeling the fear but the old establishment. And the disrupter is not only targeting a few companies both a very lucrative old industry and business model. Are they (at&t, verizon, sprint, vodaphone, qwest, t-mobile, vonage et cetera) going to be able to counteract this brilliant disruptive move? That's left to be seen but I'm sure that all the overpaid senior executives within this industry (close to retirement) is shitting their pants, knowing that they had their breakfast (mobile) almost eaten, their lunch (broadband) almost eaten and now it's dinner time.
The beauty is that the market economy works despite the desire to create monopolies (at&t > baby bells > sbc > at&t). I also enjoy the fact that a small startup (eventhough it was bought out by eBay) is challenging a multi-billion industry. Finally, I'm extadic that I'll never have to pay for a phone call again.
Time to call at&t and dump the overpriced service they have been charging us for years. Who needs them now when my phone number is portable, the communication crisp and the service free.
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