T-Mobile wins court case against VoIP iPhone app
By Simon Sage on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 5:54 AM PST In Apple, T-Mobile, VoIP
Back in July, T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) Germany was putting the legal screws to VoIP provider sipgate for requiring its users to jailbreak their iPhones in order to enjoy cheap calling over Wi-Fi networks (which is really just a roundabout way of fighting back at competition which is undercutting them). Well, T-Mo, the contested King of Magenta, won the case, forcing the program out of iTunes App Stores Germany-wide. Of course it’s still available elsewhere, but T-Mobile could easily keep hunting this one down in other countries.
Other carriers could also take a clue and actively protect their voice revenues from sipgate and other sneaky VoIP providers. It’s situations like this that make me look forward to Android’s Market, which will hopefully have fewer control mechanisms in place that could shut down apps for being too awesome.
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It’s still unclear whether application delivery with Android will resemble iPhone’s app store, I think.
Even if it doesn’t, T-mobile still can block particular ports on their data network that would be used by the VOIP apps (like they do it with t-zones).
I’m looking forward to those devices that will let folks using 700 mhz spectrum that Verizon, AT&T, and few others will be supporting soon, I guess. Supposedly FCC’s provisions would force these guys to let any third-party app or device for that matter to do anything it wants… we’ll see…
Alex,
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