Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T

Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by webwanderings on Thursday January 05, 2012 @03:56PM (#3430480)

I don't know about Twilio (and I have not read the linked article yet), but Magic Jack will kill AT&T's old business of landlines for sure. I switched mine to their newer no-computer-required device and cancelled my land line in few days. I was paying $50 per month for unlimited versus $30 per year unlimited. How in the world could you compete with that? But I bet AT&T does not care at this point about old fashioned landlines for their residential customers.

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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 05, 2012 @05:30PM (#3430888)

This still ignores the fact that Twilio or MagicJack or I'm On Crack all run on a physical backbone. You can't connect to the internet through the cloud - not sober, anyways.

There is a difference between Twilio, a telephony retailer, and AT&T, a telephony retailer an distributor. These services may hack you away from the retail arms of the telcos' retail arms, but it does nothing against the distribution businesses.

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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by webwanderings on Thursday January 05, 2012 @06:23PM (#3431099)

Thanks for your comment, you at least didn't down-voted without adding your take.

I don't really know how Magic Jack or crack jack, work. I was just merely sharing the difference and how AT&T could have a leaking hole in their boat and not even know about it.

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