Could Skype replace (S/M)MS
Stuart Henshall's wondering whether voicemessaging with Skype could replace SMS or MMS messages. The idea's that you would record a voice message and transmit it over skype instead of sending an SMS/MMS message.
Take: I personally do not see this happening. Messaging with voice is nowhere near as neutral or as hassle-free as sending a text message is. Even skype users choose to use text instead of voice depending on the situation. I don't think that the general public would find the cost benefit a sufficient enticement to switch to lobbing voice messages over.
posted by Pavle @ 10:56 am
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look how well audio mms or video mms have taken off so far. Not!
I agree. If free sms over the internet could be trusted I would use that more. But every time I've tried that, my sms would reach its destination either the next day or not at all.
Skype serves a different purpose
Let's be honest for anything thing like this to work ALL the operators have to sit down at the same table and agree. It was a miracle that that happend with sms. Skype? Not likely!
Hmmm... There's one thing to take into account: SMS was a data service over circuit switched mobile networks. (whatever...)
The interesting thing is that there are rumours that with the rollout of UMTS mobile providers will start doing voice traffic as VOIP (packet switched). This means that all traffic over UMTS would become packetised - the networks wouldn't have to work on interoperability.
The only problem is, this is a great idea but not one to explain quickly.
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