Thursday, February 22, 2007

Skype -- "It's Not A Walled Garden, It's A Prison!"

VoIP firm Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to force cellular providers into letting people have more choice about how they connect to those wireless networks. Essentially, they want phones with EV-DO or HSPDA to be allowed to access VoIP providers for calling services. They might be the first to pick up this banner, but they certainly won't be the last. We've seen Web 2.0, Voice 2.0 and, wait for it, this is the birth of Mobile 2.0 -- a cell phone that whose provider you DON'T use for voice calls -- or at least not for expensive ones.

Here's what WebProNews had to say:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/22/skype-to-fcc-let-my-people-go

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