Re: Voice spectrum swapped for LTE

Thanks, I intended to be. Your one liner  comment seemed condescending
in the context of Joe(Botha)'s complaint ("I want to use voice but
Vodacom appears to be reassigning spectrum for data"). Maybe you
didn't intend it that way but as Dave Gale says, nuances can get lost
in text. I knew a snarky comment would either offend you or encourage
you to defend your statement. Im glad it was the latter.

Logically you are correct, voice should die and anybody wanting to
make a call should use VoIP. Practically we're still far away from
that. We don't live in a technocracy as we technocrats sometimes like
to think, using your mobile phone for voice is still hugely popular in
general. If only judging by the number of people I see talking on
their phones while driving...

Point is, I think Joe makes a valid complaint. Just because you are so
cool you use Skype means nothing. The general population (especially
in Stellenbosch) is becoming increasingly frustrated by missed or
dropped calls.

Sent from phone

On 12 Feb 2013, at 22:48, Joe Abley <jabley-33MQ7pdPq3gsA/[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 2013-02-12, at 15:37, Carel van Wyk <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Those with friends yes
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> Snarky! :-)
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> It was a semi-serious question.
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> The spam wars raged through the 90s, not expecting the outcome that by 2013 nobody under the age of 16 really sends e-mail or cares particularly about their e-mail address remaining the same. Unexpected disruption. Humans are unpredictable, especially young ones.
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> When I was growing up in the UK (after I had finished growing up in NZ, and before I started growing up in Canada) local calls weren't free, the idea of idly chatting to people for hours on end was absurd. In North America adults there's a noticeable cultural difference, and it's jarring when someone calls me at home for no particular reason, since their ingrained assumptions from their youth are different from mine. So maybe I'm more inclined than most people in my immediate circle to prefer almost any means of communication over a phone call. I also can't be bothered to look up growth numbers in voice vs. text vs. data in cellular markets right now. Contents may have settled in transit, etc. However:
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> - I doubt many markets see the same growth in voice termination as they do in text and data
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> - I would be surprised if the divergence is not increasing.
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> My expectation is that in most places the demand for voice termination is (or will soon) take a back seat to packet data and text messages, with the natural conclusion that in cellular markets, voice will become a marginal application riding on the data network that many subscribers will just not bother installing.
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