Negative or realistic?
>You say.... Portico pricing seems in line with
>every current competitor (better then some).
Pricing is a major factor. I pay about $150/mo for my wireless phone and an average of 1200 minutes. To use Portico for messaging, I needed to publish the Portico number as my phone number and have it find me. That means I run double Portico minutes on incoming calls. It means my messages no longer come in free.
Portico will cost me $310/month based on their pricing plans. That's too much I think.
>You say .... Tell me how you check your email, update your
>address book, calendar, check the news on
>the road today.
I check my email etc with a secretary. I realize that everyone doesn't have one. As for my laptop, I prefer doing my email on it.
>As for making money, you don't think having
>large carriers carrying it will bring in
>many customers?
I don't think carriers will sell it. Carriers will wait and buy their own gear when it is ready.
>They are planning to license MagicTalk, right?
>This sort of is what you call selling the
>server right?
No, they are not planning this. GMGC did not design a system that meets the NOC requirements of carriers. First, it's too big -- they need to get it from 100 racks down to 5. Second, there is a lot of finishing they need to do if they want to sell servers. This is why they opted for the service route, they could get a service out while traditional ESP vendors were busy with the reliability, scalability and availability details (more than half the engineering in a telco solution).
>The service just started and many posters have
>stated that it is great and is improving every
>day. I should have it this week or next so I
>can give my feedback after that.
I agree. That doesn't guarantee success. |
