Telepocalypse

BT's blunderbuss

In respect of BT’s news today that their consumer broadband offering will include unlimited free landline calls via VoIP, it’s hard to top my brother’s analysis:

… somewhere within BT there is one division trying to sell capacity, and somewhere else there is division trying to sell scarcity and having a really bad day.

I guess BT has worked out that as the dominant telco they can offer on-net calls cheaper than anyone else (notwithstanding the efforts of the regulator to create a level pricing field). Hence the differentiator.

Anyway, nice to see my prediction that the correct price for basic VoIP service is zero come true so fast.