It is the quarterly reports time so I am all engrossed with vendor shipment and subscriber data (number crunching on steroids). That leaves little opportunity to update you on interactions with the gurus. I wanted to however do this short post on Raketu.
I had a chance to interact with Greg Parker, CEO of Raketu, yesterday. Raketu (which by the way means Rocket in Czech language) provides VoIP, IPTV, and some social networking capability – all off the public Internet. Kind of Triple Play ASP, if we take social networking aspect as the third play in the bundle. I have been struggling to coin new terms for some of the Voice 1.5 companies. But this one fits like dosa on flat pan.
I think doing voice without owning last mile is a big challenge. Skype and Vonage would know. Offering triple play services without owning the pipe to the customer is extremely bold. If you do not own the last mile how can you deliver quality IPTV and quality voice? I suppose in a SIP world you throw bandwidth to the problem and take a nap!! More on that, Raketu’s progress, and their Facebook/OpenSocial strategy in the upcoming CEO interview, which should be published in a week or so.
Raketu has had over 2.5 million downloads so far.
Just to conclude this post: In fact Raketu offers some mobility as well. So I guess the term should be Quad Play ASP. And on top of those dozen bits, the company also gives those ‘Mirror Numbers’ like Jangl, Talkster, Rebtel, and Jaxtr. That is another category of service providers which goes without a name. If you’ve got any Acronyms 2.0 please let us know.
Comments (1)
has anyone calculated how many numbers would be required worldwide if these services catch on? you need combinatorial maths to calculate that number.
Posted by dina | November 14, 2007 6:10 PM
Posted on November 14, 2007 18:10