But what if? Skype disgrace on mobile phones

    Does cellular Java have access to audio while talking on the phone?
    If yes, then
    “Ippolit Matveyevich looked around. An
    emerald
    spring light flashed and shook in the dark corners of a plagued janitor . Diamond smoke held on to the ceiling.
    Pearl beads rolled across the table and hopped across the
    floor. A precious mirage shook the room. ”


    Suppose the world finally rolls into crisis. At the regular request of the workers, managers of mobile operators with sharp teeth and backshot are finally inflating the prices for mobile communications.
    Suppose that there is a layer of people who are willing to pay less for the deterioration of voice quality and lag. There is even an opinion that in harsh Russian reality (fools, roads, GPRS), this will be closer to asynchronous voice ICQ.
    But we will call it "almost free innovative communication" - so that the ordinary subscriber did not immediately guess.

    How could all this work?
    The client program knocks on GPRS to the nearest server and “pulls” the status of the user's contact list from there. In general, everything is like in adults (i.e. like in Skype). When calling, all voice traffic is chased through GPRS (shrunk several times in relation to the original Skype when quality deteriorates) through the server to the called client, and vice versa.

    Now let's calculate how much the idyll is worth, broken by the brakes of audio conversion, GPRS lags and the servers themselves.
    Our starting point is the cost of a minute of mobile communication with the beloved Big Three. Let 4 rubles / minute.
    What do we offer? Suppose our codec drives traffic that is about 3-4 times less than Skype traffic . Suppose 9 MB / hour. That is 154 kB / minute (yes, it takes into account 1024 kilobytes). At the cost of a megabyte, on average, in a chamber equal to 4 kudrinobaksa, we get about 61 kopecks per minute, which is 15% of the voice tariff.

    That is, the cost of the client part turned out to be about 7 times less. Of course, there is still the cost of the server side - people, infrastructure, traffic. There is still licensing, which the Holy Trinity crushed under itself.

    Most likely, the cost of cellular communications will increase along with the crisis panic escalated on TV. The cost of GPRS is likely to grow too, but not at such a fast pace (the service is less demanding). So, we have a promising increase in the coefficient of separation of our Neo from evil reality.

    By the way, MTS has made traffic billing at 100 kB , which is equivalent to about 40 seconds of communication.

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