Will consumers pay for features?
David Beckemeyer's post on Fring is worth a read, for a couple of reasons:
- He illustrates the VoIP pricing conundrum. By now it's apparent to everyone that the differences in price points that VoIP providers have chosen, and the price points the incumbents have chosen are not a function of technology, but rather marketing.
- He asks the core question: do features matter? If price is the only reason for consumers to migrate to VoIP, then there will be a lot more financial problems like Vonage in our future. If customers will buy features then there's a different dynamic at work.
Our bet is that business customers will pay for features that make economic sense. Consumers, we're not so sure about.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Fring is so great on GPRS!
I use Fring to chat with my buddies. We send text messages instead of SMS. One SMS costs me 15 Euro Cent. For the same price I can send thousands of chat messages. Overall I will have to pay 2 Euros for GPRS this month. Fring is the best application …
June 13th, 2007 at 4:19 am
At first VoIP was a race to the bottom of the pricing scale, but I see the VoIP companies needing to offer more services as they way to maintain their customers as well as bring in more.