Yahoo to kill voice?
Andy Abramson reported a rumor yesterday that Yahoo, as part of its reorg, would kill the voice business, apparently to appease SBC.
If true, that’s a terrible idea. Presence and voice are now inextricably linked. A choice to kill the voice business at this stage would signal an abdication of Yahoo’s position in the next generation of communications. The future of communications is multi-modal. Customers will take calls on landlines, mobiles, and PCs, interchangeably, and presence will be the key to unlocking that market. The sooner old-line telco’s become accustomed to this, the better.
Yahoo’s presence cloud can be an enabler of that future. If it’s walled into an IM-only strategy, however, it becomes irrelevant.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:26 am
You gotta subscribe Alex, hehe
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December 6th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
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