Both Apple and Skype have issued statements in the wake of AT&T’s announcement, that the company would begin allowing VoIP to be used on the iPhone via their 3G network.
The AP is reporting that Apple will be working quickly as to allow iPhone customers to take advantage of this new feature.
Apple welcomed the announcement. “We are very happy that AT&T is now supporting VOIP applications,” said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “We will be amending our developer agreements to get VOIP apps on the App Store and in customers’ hands as soon as possible.”
On the other side of this story, Skype president Josh Silverman was equally excited about the announcement, now Skype’s iPhone application can now support the 3G network, and not just WIFI as it does now.
All of us at Skype applaud today’s announcement by AT&T (in an FCC filing to be published shortly – update, it’s here in PDF format) that it’ll open up its 3G network to Internet calling applications such as Skype. It’s the right step for AT&T, Apple, millions of mobile Skype users and the Internet itself.
Excellent. I don’t know why AT&T didn’t allow this in the first place, users still have to have a cellular data plan to use this away from a WIFI hotspot, and that means you have to pay AT&T for that. The only thing I can guess, is that AT&T was afraid this feature would bog down the network even more than it already is, and that is something they can’t afford right now.
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