Comments on: Skype CEO Lobbies for Skype on 3G

By: Skype CEO Lobbies for Skype’s right to be used over 3G · Gadget Mania Gadgets and Gadget News

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:40:04 +0000

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By: Nach Netzneutralität-Order: Skype will zurück in das UMTS-Netz | Basic Thinking Blog

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:52:35 +0000

[...] auf das Handy zurückzukehren. Dazu will CEO Josh Silverman heute Abend auf einer Veranstaltung eine Rede vor Branchenvertretern halten, unter denen unter anderem auch der FCC-Vorsitzende Julius Genachowski sitzen wird. [...]

By: How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony

How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:51:58 +0000

[...] Silverman about his plans for the Skype in the coming years. In the first part of the conversation, Josh discussed his lobbying efforts to get Skype working over 3G [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:30:07 +0000

He means this in a business (or product) context, not a technical context. As far as a business or a user is concerned, they both do the same thing and therefore there is no difference.

By: Skype Over 3G - Does This Make Sense? ~ IT Professionals

Skype Over 3G - Does This Make Sense? ~ IT Professionals — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:09:49 +0000

[...] I learned that Skype’s CEO is lobbying to allow Skype to be used over 3G networks. Really? Yes, it is true that while some 3G networks are [...]

By: powel

powel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:56:43 +0000

“just as there is no difference in wired and wireless networks” …. what?! how did he become ceo by saying things like this … ok, you may want to say/do whatever possible to get more business, but saying such bs costs you credibility …. they are inherently different.

By: riffic

riffic — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:06:32 +0000

Skype is dead-end technology. it is a walled-garden and the very definition of proprietary, never mind the fact that the core p2p technology is under dispute by the founders.

A forward thinking platform should be based on open standards and built with interoperability with other services in mind. How successful would have the original telephone networks been if users from AT&T were unable to talk to subscribers on another network.

Google Talk, built with open standards XMPP and Jingle, is a great alternative btw.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:07:48 +0000

skype could get the blessing of all the carriers by developing the same service that runs on the 3 network from Hutchinson. the voice channel is were the calls belong .not the data channel. also they may have to block skypein/skypeout to get the blessing of the operators. but all the other benefit of skype would be there including presence.

of course there are now and will be 3rd party options to help make cheap calls even though skypeout/in is blocked. basically callback services that work with skypenames in place of phone numbers.

this would all help get skype into the enterprise switchboards as well.

By: Skype CEO and FCC Chairman in Washington « IKnowRusty.com

Skype CEO and FCC Chairman in Washington « IKnowRusty.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:57 +0000

[...] will be talking about getting Skype on the 3G network of cell phone providers. Right now Skype is currently blocked over 3G networks and only allowed [...]

By: jm

jm — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:46:24 +0000

Generally wide area network refers to the external portion of a network and local area network refers to the internal portion. Therefore, a local network would be say, ALL of Time Warner Cables’ cable modem users (which is a LOT of IPs). Then internet that is on the other side of that network (outside of Time Warners Local network) is a WAN. All of that is relative of course.

If you have a Time Warner Cable internet connection, and you have a LAN, then the time warner LAN is your WAN by extension.

Anyway, what he said was correct, it was just correct at a much larger scale than the typical home LAN.