Speak your tweets, just make a call.
Twitterfone launched last night, the latest venture from Pat Phelan and the Dial2do boys Ivan and Sean.
TechCrunch and Damien Mulley have the scoop. I’ve used it and it is just too easy to use.
Well done lads, keep ‘em coming!
A song, “Bring it Down”, by an old eighties band called The Redskins was buzzing through my head this weekend. They were specifically talking about capitalism and Thatchers Britain, but I reckon the lyrics make it pretty good anthem for what Pat is trying to do with the network operators.
(BURN IT UP!) BRING IT DOWN!
You’ve never had it so good
The favourite phrase of those who’ve always had it better
Burn it up!
Realise the altogether
Bring it down
Burn together
The altogether’s an insane thing, insane thing
Bring it down
All together
The altogether’s an insane thing, insane thing
You’ve never had it so good
The favourite phrase of those who’ve always had it better
You never had so much is the cry
Of those who’ve always had much more, much more than you & I
Burn brother burn
Fight together
This altogether’s an insane thing, insane thing
Bring it down
All together
The altogether’s an insane thing, insane thing
Burn
Insane thing, insane thing
Insane thing, insane thing
Burn brother burn
Let’s burn Together
Burn brother burn
Burn, burn, burn
This insane thing, insane thing
Burn brother burn
Burn sister burn
Spurn the lie
They use to justify
This insanity!
The inhumanity!
Of this insane thing
Burn brother burn
Burn, burn, burn
Some’s got it easy
Bring it down
The altogether
Keeps getting better for the few
Who’ve got it good to start with …
I was thinking about Pat Phelan’s Paddy Tax press release today and the general unofficial cartel situation that infects Banking, Telcos, Network operators and Supermarkets in Ireland.
None of these guys really compete and maybe its us, not them. Not that we don’t want them to compete, but there just isn’t enough of us to make it worthwhile. Nature teaches us that in situations where many competitors strive after scare resources the result is that they typically partition the resources so that direct competition is eliminated.
So what we get in Ireland is the appearance of competition with no real attempt at radical differentiation or elimination of the competitors. Our own inability to complain directly combined with our gift for complaining publically then creates the illusion of a disgruntled population when in fact it would take dynamite for most o2 users to move to vodafone and vice-versa.
So here is what I suggest. If you are really (and I mean really, as opposed to something to pass the time over a cup of coffee) disillusioned with your network operator service contract, your bank or your supermarket, then switch. Then switch back. Then switch back again. For banks and network operators the cost of churn is enormous, for supermarkets the fluctuations in cashflow can cause chaos.
Somebody in Digital once said to me, to create the conditions for organisational change you have to inflict pain. Well creating churn is a great way to inflict a little organisational pain on our buddies in Irelands Cartel Economy.
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