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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by druiid on Thursday January 05, 2012 @04:16PM (#3430552)
Really? I'll elucidate. There hasn't been a national copper interconnect (POTS) for a long time now. You might, have copper to the house but after that it's fiber all the way down. AT&T and all the large carriers leverage this to carry your voice traffic as data and on top of that can carry 'internet data' and whatever else.

With AT&T goes the data, even if you haven't had a 'phone line' in a long time.

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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by nestlequ1k on Thursday January 05, 2012 @04:40PM (#3430652)
No one says ATT doesn't still get some money. But wouldn't you rather be the one sending the final customer a bill for 50/mo?

There's a reason wireless companies have been fighting vigorously to avoid becoming dumb pipes.

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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by thesis on Thursday January 05, 2012 @05:21PM (#3430849)
Are you serious?

That's like saying you it's better to own a website, rather then own Amazon EC2 or <insert any datacenter here>.

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Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T by nestlequ1k on Thursday January 05, 2012 @10:52PM (#3431869)
Yeah, I'm serious. I'd rather own Facebook than the servers it operates on.
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