Apple loosens SDK restrictions, allows VoIP over 3G

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/09/sdk.offers.new.tools.for.ipad.content/

by sil3ntmac • 16 years ago

28 6 16 years ago

If VOIP over 3G is enabled, it is the beginning of the end for the profits of the big cell phone providers. They will be relegated to being a "utility" or commodity provider.

there• 16 years ago

those big cell phone providers being the same ones providing the data network to carry the voip calls, of course.

it wouldn't be a stretch for at&t to claim their feeble network can't support voip and block it or just deprioritize voip packets enough that the calls are not clear.

wmf• 16 years ago

More likely they'll set data prices such that a VoIP call costs more than a circuit-switched voice call. This wouldn't even be evil, since a VoIP call uses more bandwidth than a circuit-switched call.

Also, VoIPo3G generally sucks: http://gigaom.com/2010/01/19/iphone-the-lack-of-voice-over-3...

andyking• 16 years ago

They could also do what 3 have done in the UK with Skype - all their new phones have a 3-produced Skype app preloaded which appears to work just like any other installation of Skype.

Behind the scenes, updating your contact list and sending / receiving IMs are done over the data network - however, when you make or receive a Skype call it's routed over the voice network and simply not charged.

pmjordan• 16 years ago

I'm kind of surprised this was Apple's policy to begin with. Some networks already block or deliberately slow down VoIP traffic (e.g. Skype) anyway.

Apple loosens SDK restrictions, allows VoIP over 3G

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