AT&T's entry into mobile video calling
My good friend Peter Csathy just posted this piece. Peter's teh CEO at SightSpeed, and trsut me when I tell you he knows video and watches it closely.
Mobile
Video Calling -- Now Reality for the First Time in the U.S.: A Picture
May Be Worth a Thousand Words, But Being There is Priceless!I have frequently blogged about the promise of mobile video calling -- not only one-to-one video calling, but the power of "see what I'm seeing" from anywhere, and anytime.
Well, this is no longer fiction here in the U.S., as
AT&T -- in a major strategic initiative announced yesterday by
Randall Stephenson, AT&T's new CEO -- is rolling out a new
consumer-focused wireless service dubbed "Video Share" which
enables just that -- i.e., live video streaming from cellphone to
cellphone. AT&T -- which is the first carrier in the States to
offer such a service -- fully touts the power that only video can bring
in its messaging for this new service -- as an example, imagine
grandparents watching the first steps of their grandkids. The possibilities are endless ...
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Like Peter, I'm very keen on the future of video calling and the next generation of services to help us keep in touch. Like Peter I am hopefully optimistic about the future of video and video calling.
That said, I am not particularly optimistic about AT&T's ability to execute successfully.I think it's interesting because the industry will learn from their pain. We'll all get to learn what not to do as video services in the mobile market unfold. I see this as very much an early foray into what the future might hold, but it sure isn't anything I'll go sign up for.
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