{"id":312970,"date":"2010-02-12T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-12:article\/419-skype-planning-voip-over-verizon-wireless"},"modified":"2010-02-12T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:11:29","slug":"skype-planning-voip-over-verizon-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312970","title":{"rendered":"Skype Planning VoIP Over Verizon Wireless?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This just in: Skype tells mocoNews.net it will be hosting a joint news conference with Verizon Wireless at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. No word on what this announcement is about, but it will be the first time that a major mobile operator has stood up with Skype.<\/p>\n

Will the two announce a deal to route Skype VoIP calls over Verizon’s mobile network? That would be a big move for Skype, of which eBay (NSDQ: EBAY<\/a>) recently sold 70 percent; it will need to focus harder on its own bottom line now as a separte company.\n<\/p>\n

The only mobile operator that Skype has worked with directly has been 3, the Hutchison-owned operator in the UK. There, they sell co-branded phones and they also have a SIM-only service where they offer free voice calls between Skype users, using 3’s network.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, 3 announced that it had carried one billion Skype calls on its network<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Josh Silverman, the CEO of Skype, has been referring to conversations with other mobile operators for a year now, but this could be the first sign of these talks coming to anything for the VoIP operator.<\/p>\n

Tricia will be covering Mobile World Congress proceedings from Barcelona…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This just in: Skype tells mocoNews.net it will be hosting a joint news conference with Verizon Wireless at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. No word on what this announcement is about, but it will be the first time that a major mobile operator has stood up with Skype. Will the two announce a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}