iPhone users get Skype service

Skype mentions to the users that iPhone will be able to use its internet telephony service in order to make calls, not by using the mobile network but by using the wi-fi services.

Skype for iPhone, the firm's native voice over internet protocol (VoIP) application is going to be available on Tuesday for download from Apple's iTunes store.

New users will be given the chance of making free calls to Skype users, howerver it will charge for calls to other numbers.

In the year 2007, the first Skype handset was launched by network 3.

Fring and TruPhone, the rival applications, are already available for the iPhone. In fact, TruPhone announced a flat rate charge of £25 a month for unlimited Voip calls to mobiles and landlines in about 64 countries.

Skype turns your voice into data and sends it over the internet, compared with traditional mobile calls that are transmitted over a cellular network.

Voip applications allow users, some of them, in making internet telephone calls over wi-fi and the cellular network.

While calling another Skype user will be free, in the case of Skype, calling an actual phone number via the service will incur a cost.

Accodingly, Iphone users cannot be able to make Skype calls, either to Skype contacts or to landlines, over the mobile network, which something users of Skype on the UK mobile network 3 can do, and have to use a wi-fi hotspot.

Watching the pennies

Although the firm did not rule them out in the future, most of Skype's other features, including, but not limited to video conferencing and the ability to receive a second Skype call, have been left out,

"We're considering video carefully but we have a really high bar on the quality," said Skype's chief operating officer Scott Durchslag. "If we do it we will have to do it incredibly well," he further said.

Mr Durchslag said that he had high hopes for the application.

"The number one request we get from customers is to make Skype available on iPhone," he added.

One of Skype plans is to launch a service for BlackBerry users in the month of May.

 

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