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Skype and Verizon Wireless have announced that they are joining forces to provide a cheap integrated mobile VOIP solution starting in March of this year. According to the announcement, several BlackBerry and Android phones will come with Skype pre-installed upon purchase from Verizon. All Skype-to-Skype calls will be free, and Skype’s standard low international long distance [...]

It looks like the Skype client’s ability to make calls over 3G may have to wait until Apple releases iPhone OS 3.2. The LA Times is reporting on a conversation with an Apple spokesperson who confirmed the recent VOIP over 3G developments in the new iPhone OS 3.2 beta SDK licensing agreement. “We revised our [...]

There seems to be a mad rush to enabling VOIP over 3G on the iPhone today. First, iCall announced VOIP over 3G, then Fring hopped on board, and everyone was waiting for Skype to join in. The discussion even hit slashdot, and people started testing it out. Well, according to at least one slashdotter, Skype [...]

Company blogs are such a wonderful thing. In a recent post on the Skype blog summarizing 2009 for the application, it has been announced that a 3G-capable version of the iPhone Skype app is ready and awaiting the Apple go-ahead for deployment. No real word on when that’ll happen, but it’s nice to know Skype [...]

Story @ financialpost Competition in the cellular phone market is always good and is why I have included this story. A good option for VOIP users could be to get an iPhone on a “cheap” minutes plan (ideally pay-as-you-go), and get a good data add-on. One could then use Fring/Skype or some other VOIP service [...]

The Associated Press is reporting on Apple’s response to AT&T’s opening up of their 3G network to VOIP apps. “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 [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that AT&T may allow VOIP apps such as Google Voice and Skype to operate on their networks, including on devices such as the iPhone. This could hopefully open up the door to the (re)introduction of some appstore apps and features which would permit the use of non-cellular voice communication on [...]

CBC Story The CBC is carrying a story about the Skype for iPhone application release today and contained in their article is a bit about Skype-In: Another feature from the company, SkypeIn — which assigns users a phone number so that they can take incoming calls — is still not available in Canada. Company executives [...]

Globe and Mail story Skype’s iPhone app is finally coming to Canada. As of Wednesday, Canadian iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to join the 6-million-and-counting users who have already downloaded one of the most popular applications in the world. Tom Yeung, Skype’s director of market development for the Americas, told The Globe [...]

Found out via @skype on twitter that Skype has broken away from eBay and become its own entity again. Hopefully skype will re-evaluate its stance on having no intention of offering e911 service – the stumbling block preventing skype from offering skype-in numbers in Canada. Today, Skype begins a new chapter. We’re spinning off from [...]