Send a fax for €0,09 per page (US$0.13) to Singapore, Israel, Aland Islands, Malaysia, Finland, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Venezuela, Cyprus, Argentina, and Estonia. PamFax Pro subscribers pay €0,06. (Seems to be part of a larger trend….

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I’m heading out to a technology public policy conference today. Tuning my ear to listen for new issues. Some already on the Skype plate… Mobile Carterfone – freedom to use the device of your choice on a mobile network Mobile Net Neutrality…

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You can now use Skype To Go without a subscription, using your Skype credits. This widens the market for this cost saving service: Skypers who call family and friends over international lines. Could be a good move: if if STG can switch newbies from cal…

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Do you want your money back after 180 days? Skype’s long taken credits from accounts it deems abandoned. Seattle lawyer Roger M. Townsend filed suit Friday on behalf of all Skype users in Washington who lost money this way. The plaintiffs say a Sky…

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A message from IPEVO’s Caroline Andreolle: Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate and thank our customers, we’re offering free ground shipping until the end of year (to the Continental US). And to celebrate that, we’re offering 300 free Skype vouche…

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In its latest financial filing AT&T claims that they sold 6.9M iPhones and added 1M new cellular customers in the quarter due to the iPhone 3G. (Apple says that 39% of quarterly revenues were due to pushing out 200M iPhones so far.)  Here’s the funny part: Agents can’t sell the iPhone. Agents can sell Blackberries and other phones but not the iPhone.

Once again AT&T spends money to create a “Solution Provider” Alliance Channel that demonstrates preferences to AT&T sales employees over its Channel agents. On its Alliance website, AT&T writes “Targeted customer sets to minimize channel conflicts” That’s some messaging there.

Speaking to the Channel Champions, more than one is worried about what the new year will bring. One never knows what the RBOC Channel will look like year to year.

Not being able to sell the hottest phone to business execs is just one example of how the direct side is treated preferentially over the Indirect Channel. Another is on pricing. Last week, I received a phone call from AT&T about my posting pricing to my client blog. They wanted it removed immediately. Well, I am a sub-agent of a Solutions Provider; I am not direct. (Been there done that; have the scars to prove it). But the pricing did not come from an AT&T website. The pricing came from one of my customers who got it from his account exec. At that point, it’s public domain. Just another example of AT&T and its control issues.

AT&T is a wireless company. If that was really true, agents would be able to sell all of its wireless products.

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