Granted, VoIP solutions for the iPhone aren’t exactly a new idea. But, that hasn’t stopped T-Mobile Germany from taking up arms over sipgate‘s flagship VoIP solution for the iPhone.
The issue at hand is the fact that sipgate’s VoIP client requires a jailbroken iPhone in order to do its thing over a WiFi connection. T-Mobile’s position on the matter is that the sipgate VoIP solution makes jailbreaking an all too enticing proposition – inviting subscribers to breach their contracts with T-Mobile.
According to Thilo Salmon, sipgate CEO, T-Mobile’s contract forbids jailbreaking, running VoIP, instant messaging, and VPN applications. But, seeing as how the sipgate solution works over a WiFi connection, avoiding the need to use T-Mobile’s GSM network, Salmon believes T-Mobile AG iPhone users are in the clear for WiFi-based VoIP usage.
Of course, there’s just that matter of having to jailbreak the iPhone before anyone can use sipgate’s VoIP client. And, Salmon says “we may need to fight this all the way through the courts.” There’s even talk of stirring up net-neutrality policies in Germany.
Fight the good fight, sipgate.
[Via: TUAW]