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iPhone VOIP tussle heats up
Skype vs Deutsche Telekom, AT&T

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
3rd April 2009 20:46 GMT

Skype and its allies are fighting back against telcos that disallow or cripple its voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) service.

At issue is Deutsche Telekom's edict that customers who use Skype's free VoIP service on their iPhone will have their internet access summarily severed and AT&T's refusal to allow Skype to work on its Edge and 3G networks.


On Wednesday, Deutsche Telekom's mobile arm, T-Mobile Germany, decreed that subscribers who used its service to make VoIP calls using Skype for the iPhone (iTunes link) could have their service severed.

In an article in Thursday's USA Today, AT&T exec Jim Cicconi said that his company had "every right" to not promote the services of a wireless rival - meaning Skype.

The Register for full article - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/de...m_blocks_skype/