Comments on: Gizmo "Friends and Family"

By: Conference Calls from the Outlook Toolbar : voiceontheweb.biz

Conference Calls from the Outlook Toolbar : voiceontheweb.biz — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:41:43 +0000

[...] Toolbar and click on the relevant “phone” number to launch a Skype or SkypeOut call..In his post on GizmoProject’s All Calls Free offering, Alec Saunders says: “At iotum, Steve Lecomte and Julien Raynal, who spend lots of time on [...]

By: Gizmo Project’s “All Calls Free” - Will It Drive User Recruitment? : voiceontheweb.biz

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:27:43 +0000

[...] Saunders, in his post, Gizmo “Friends and Family” concludes: “If you primarily call North American numbers, for now Skype is a better offering. [...]

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:47:51 +0000

Gizmo â€” is great project, I’m looking for this long time.

I just need to call from Russia to Egypt. It’s very easy now!

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:33:25 +0000

Matti — it’s useful in the scenario where you are trying to reach someone who is a gizmo subscriber, but not in front of the PC.

By: matti

matti — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:12:57 +0000

Wait! If the other party also has to have Gizmo account, why would I not call them for free using Gizmo to Gizmo??? The free plan does not constitute a benefit here at all, does it?

In essence, I could not call for example my grandparents (no PC there) or other elderly or computer challenged friends, business associates or family members using the free plan. I'd have to pay the Gizmo out rates to all countries. So the free plan does nothing for me here either.

Gizmo can't be serious about advancing into business organizations by having individuals in oncies and twocies invite their business contacts to buy Gizmo. That will just never come up in a conversation. You can't go around telling people, to buy software as a prerequisite for you to call them. In normal business conversation, VoIP only comes up if the callee volunteers that "You can also call me using Skype or Gizmo" or whatever. The topic is never initiated by the caller.

So it is still advantage:Skype. Or did I miss something?

By: Skype Journal

Skype Journal — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:26:55 +0000

Gizmo Project’s “All Calls Free”…

One of the challenges of entering the VoIP consumer space is to simply sign up users; so how do you match up the fact that Skype has over 100 million registered users (even if only max 7 million, and climbing, are on Skype at any given time)? A lot of….

By: Moshe Maeir

Moshe Maeir — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:20:18 +0000

Just proves the point that companies like Vonage have nothing to offer!
The name of the game is connectivity collaboration, ease of work…

Termination costs are no longer an issue – ease of use is (Iotum…)

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:26:10 +0000

Cool! That’s good to hear Jason. Thanks for dropping by.

By: Jason Droege

Jason Droege — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:05:20 +0000

Alec — as usual a very insightful post. We actually didn’t feel any pain as a result of the Skype announcement in US & Canada. Most of our business and usage is outside the US and our usage in the US is because we can work with office PBX’s, connect to Gtalk, etc.

We’ve always believed that calls would go to free, so this is just another step in executing our vision. Calling rates get cheaper for us all the time, so the financial burden isn’t significant…similar to the cost of bandwidth back in the 90′s (maybe slightly more, but same idea).

By: Dario

Dario — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:46:56 +0000

Don’t worry. It’s the same company that has develop some other voip (voip stunt,voipcheap,voip buster) and make the same marketing for all voip. I add your blog on my day readers.