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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 works over 3G without issue now too.

I just tried skype on my iPhone…went through on 3g with no problems

If nothing else, this at least means cheap long distance on the iPhone, and possibly quite a bit of free talk as well if the calls are skype-to-skype. Some reports are that VOIP over 3G is of spotty quality. Any users care to chime in?

edit: it seems the skype client still doesn’t work, but you can use Fring to call out over 3G using skype-out

That didn’t take long.

Fring Blog

You wanted it, immediately after Apple allowed it, fring launches its 3G-friendly VoIP app.

With fring on 3G, users get unrestricted, mobile communication. Now iPhone fring users can call, video call, chat and more for FREE over 3G and wifi!

And the best thing? You don’t have to do anything to turn the feature on!

How do I get this update?

You don’t need to do anything to get this update. Just open fring on your iPhone and you are good to go!