Hutchison Whampoa’s carrier 3 is testing Skype on mobile phones, with plans to offer the service later this year. It’s unclear exactly how the service will work (more details later), although 3 Sweden offers Skype bundled with a 3G data card and flat-rate data plan. It certainly sounds like they’re using mobile phones, though: “Trials will be carried out using enabled mobile phones from leading phone manufacturers.”
Watch the hype explode around this, with people heralding it as the beginning of the end for carriers, etc etc etc. But there are a lot of unanswered questions at this point, primarily concerning how 3 will price things. Stay tuned.
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