"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> > but the need for a "telco" is only temporary.
>
> Bet it isnt.

Check with us in 11 years, and your tune will say, "oh, I guess that
Oxford guy was right".

> > Cell towers are dead ends, VOIP wipes them out and is basically "free".
>
> Pity about the lack of WiFi in so much of the area most want to move in.

Do you live in the US? Just curious? or the back woods?

> And if cell towers are dead ends, no point in getting an
> iphone, you might as well just have a decent non phone
> instead and avoid the 2 year contract cost with AT&T too.

But an iPhone will allow for free phone calls within the year, most
"cell" phones won't.

> >> And then there's the phone plans on offer too. That isnt
> >> something that was relevant with the ipod, you could just
> >> dump your CDs into if it you wanted to.
>
> > But you don't need a data plan for many of the iphone features,
>
> You do for voip tho.

Not sure as of yet. VOIP would run in the Safari Browser as it sits now,
so there would be no need for "data" through ATT for that. That's all
pure TCP/IP / 802.11.

> > so just learn that once Skype is on the iPhone,
> > (about 2 months) no need to pay ATT a single penny.
>
> Wrong, you're locked into a 2 year contract with ATT.

Ah, but you can leave on day 1 for $175, so you aren't "locked in".

> > Then the iPhone becomes a "free" phone
> > to talk to anyone in the world for "free".
>
> Fantasy. Skype aint free.

Skype to Skype is free, so iPhone to iPhone would be free, sure if you
are talking to an old fashioned phone, you pay a small fee, or
international old fashioned phones, you pay a bit higher fee, but Skype
to Skype anywhere in the world, to Skype anywhere in the world is free.

> > Like it should be.
>
> Its nothing like that.

You'll learn.

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And since you are too slow to understand large concepts as I discuss,
you've been Plonked!

Sorry, you just aren't rational.

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