Richard Karpinski of Telephony Online, otherwise a man of great talent and judgement, decided to waste a few minutes last week by doing a podcast with me, where we discussed the long tail of telephony. Many carriers read telephony online, and although I’m not shy about sharing my opinion of their long term prospects, I tried to be on my best behavior for Richard. I only swore once (I think I said “sucked”), and then only as it applies to broad-based, horizontal carrier applications and value added services - not about carriers themselves. I said that the carriers themselves were ultimately doomed to be dumb pipe vendors, but maybe the smart ones could position themselves to become really good dumb pipe vendors.
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