{"id":9327,"date":"2011-05-17T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/should_carriers_charge_less_for_pipes_to_get_more_for_services.html"},"modified":"2011-05-17T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T06:57:57","slug":"should-carriers-charge-less-for-pipes-to-get-more-for-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/should-carriers-charge-less-for-pipes-to-get-more-for-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Should Carriers Charge Less for Pipes to Get More For Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Abramson has some lucid <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2011\/05\/are-the-mobile-operators-dumb-or-just-dumb-pipes.html\">thoughts<\/a> on carrier pricing and has a suggestion to mobile operators relating to lowering the prices of broadband as a means to sell enhanced services. Certainly this happens with SMS today but I wonder if carriers will be able to charge for services which others like Google will gladly give away for free.<\/p>\n<p>A good point made in the piece is with Microsoft as a parent, Skype will have lobbying cred on par with the best in telecom. It is unclear if this is totally the case as AT&#038;T&#8217;s connections in Washington are incredible by all accounts &#8211; but still, this is certainly a step up the ladder for Skype in terms of DC clout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Abramson has some lucid thoughts on carrier pricing and has a suggestion to mobile operators relating to lowering the prices of broadband as a means to sell enhanced services. Certainly this happens with SMS today but I wonder if carriers will be able to charge for services which others like Google will gladly give<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,160,199,189,203,118,174,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}