Vodafone to provide Skype on its cellphones
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It is logical yet it’s something. Vodafone is planning to launch a service enabling its customers to make Skype phone calls. The application called Starfish was demonstrated at the CeBit in Hanover, users can launch it whenever they’re within a WiFi hotspot. Vodafone hasn’t decided when to start it as well as the commercial terms and prices.
Another interesting is that the Starfish software is essentially the same Skype software used by Hutchinson-Three. And if you remember, the software in question was iSkoot, a free-to-download application, available for Nokia E-series and some Motorola handsets. So expect Skype to become ‘the’ VoIP mobile network, but don’t expect to see it on every handset any time soon.
Mar 16, 2007 | By Nuno
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Vodafone’s Starfish to defend the voice business?…
Didn’t Vodafone struggle against VoIP and reserve it’s right to block it from July 2007 on? As Starfish uses the voice channel, I guess that it’s to defend its per minute voice business. It could be easily all over IP as Vodafone’s new HSDPA/HSUPA …