{"id":314189,"date":"2010-02-12T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/7907a7ad905f958baf0a9e8cc10e7b0c"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:06:00","slug":"article-mwc-2010-verizon-and-skype-are-up-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/314189","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: MWC 2010: Verizon and Skype are up to something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/93832-verizon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\">W<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;\">e just got an invite to a Verizon Wireless\/Skype joint news conference to be held next Tuesday morning (US Time) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Huh. What could they be up to?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The invite literally says no more than this:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;\">Verizon Wireless and Skype will hold a news conference during the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.&nbsp; Speakers will include:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;\"><span><em>&middot;<\/em><span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><em>John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Verizon Wireless<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;\"><span><em>&middot;<\/em><span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><em>Josh Silverman, chief executive officer, Skype<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Are they launching some kind of a deal to route Verizon calls over Skype? Maybe something to do with VoIP calling on smartphones &#8211; or non-phone 3G devices? Your guess is as good as mine. We&#8217;ll know more starting at 11:15 am EST on Tuesday, February 16. Stay tuned!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A_Ou4qkmOiwhMGcfemBgYB5Q4Q4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A_Ou4qkmOiwhMGcfemBgYB5Q4Q4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A_Ou4qkmOiwhMGcfemBgYB5Q4Q4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A_Ou4qkmOiwhMGcfemBgYB5Q4Q4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/ca4POglJG3M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just got an invite to a Verizon Wireless\/Skype joint news conference to be held next Tuesday morning (US Time) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Huh. What could they be up to? The invite literally says no more than this: Verizon Wireless and Skype will hold a news conference during the 2010 Mobile World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314189","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}