Author: Xiangming
This week, the instant messaging market is again striking. On August 17, TOM announced the existing free mailbox from 10m to 180m. Experts analysis, Tom Expansion free mailbox will attract more fixed users, and this move is very likely to prepare for the instant messaging market in the second half of the year.
Previously, another major event of instant messaging was also settled in the end of the month. The Group's armed forces of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Domain Dispute Solution Center believed that the United States online in the "ICQ.com.cn" domain name attribute . According to the news of the internal arbitration report of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Domain Name Dispute Center, the loss brought by this incident reached millions of yuan.
The instant messaging market has developed rapidly
In November 1996, 4 Israeli young people launched the first instant messaging software in the world, meaning "I am looking for you" - "Izeekyou", referred to as ICQ. In my country, the most famous instant messaging software is Tencent's QQ.
The survey shows that only Tencent QQ has 226 million registered users, 5 million toll users. In 2003, the highest online number of China's instant messaging software reached 5.5 million, and it was expected to exceed 7.4 million people at the end of 2004. Foreign situations are also sigh, and the United States has 3/4 Internet users to connect Internet networks with instant messaging tools and media player programs, and treat them more important than browser. Some people also predicted that in 2007, US wireless SMS and IM users will reach 75 million and 63 million respectively. At the end of 2007, SMS and IM's profits will reach $ 1.9 billion.
Instant messaging challenges traditional telecommunications business
With the rapid development of the Internet, network communication tools such as MsnMessager and QQ are more popular in more and more netizens. This new communication tool is producing huge impact on telephone services.
On the one hand, voice chat is a traditional telecom call business. However, after the voice call function of IM software, many people will no longer communicate through telephone, which is obvious on fixed telephone services; and telecom operators are working hard to promote video telephone services And because of the rise of broadband, it is implemented in video chat of IM software.
On the other hand, the telephone call based on instant messaging "platform" is very inexpensive. For example, the largest telephone operator Weisson Communications, on July 22, launched a network telephone service to the residents on July 22, the monthly fee is $ 40, and there is no limit to call the local call and the domestic long distance. Its international long distance charges, from Los Angeles is in Beijing, which is only 6 cents per minute.
An electronic wall blocking interconnection
However, in fact, there is still a problem in the domestic instant messaging market. Among them, various instant messaging software in China cannot be compatible with interoperability is the most prominent issue. Analysts believe that the software "bottleneck" does not break, the expansion of instant messaging market will be greatly reduced.
On July 15th, the United States online, Yahoo and Microsoft three major industries giants first jointly, announced that their independent instant messaging software (Ya Ti Tiger, MSN and AIM) will be connected by the workspace, so that the three-party users communicate with each other without enabling Three systems.
Although this interconnection is mainly applied to the business sector, there is no current user, but the industry still believes that the significance of this move is not only to overthrow the electronic wall between instant messaging software, but more importantly, it means instant messaging The real rise of the software makes instant messaging, and the content of the interoperability is quickly extended by speech to image, text, data.
At the same time, this incident is also seen as the foreign instant messaging software in the industry seeking the industry alliance, and this alliance will be excluded from Chinese instant messaging software and manufacturers.
Glossary
InstantMessenger, A Brief Discussion on July 20, 1996, 4 Israeli established a small company named Mirabilis in Tel Aviv. After 4 months, the world's first instant messaging software ICQ (ie, Izeekyou) was born in their hands. In the case of unmanned investment, they provide free download to global Internet users. This is the prototype of instant messaging (IM) currently in the global winds. From: China Youth Daily
