In reaction to the criticism for crippling the Nokia N95’s VoIP capabilities, Vodafone decided NOT to go this way in Australia. In the earlier post we talked about how carriers have pulled out VoIP services from the Nokia N95. They haven’t did that completely, and VoIP providers found the way to get around the barriers, thus continuing to offer their services (affordable) to the N95 owners.
Carriers have been arguing that offering the VoIP enabled handsets would be an economic suicide. Provide contract customers with the subsidized phones, which customers could use on the competing (WiFI) networks, doesn’t have much sense from their point of view. Hopefully, the customers will win and we’ll have mobile and VoIP bundled in a not-that-expensive smartphone. (via: SymbianFreak) 🙂