{"id":314783,"date":"2010-02-12T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:21:32","slug":"verizon-wireless-and-skype-slated-for-a-duet-at-mwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/314783","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless and Skype slated for a duet at MWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/12\/verizon-wireless-and-skype-at-mwc\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26240 alignright\" title=\"Verizon Skype Duet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Verizon-Skype-Duet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I love me some Skype. I get to call and video chat with all my buddies from overseas without hefty fees, except I was accustomed to doing it only where Wi-Fi was available. While AT&amp;T and Apple have made some recent policy changes to allow VoIP over 3G, it looks like Verizon and Skype are partnering up do to a little of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon and Skype are going to hold a joint news conference at Mobile World Congress next week, but they didn&#8217;t reveal any details about the event. The only thing that could possibly be gleaned from this announcement is that the two are working to make the nation&#8217;s biggest 3G network that much sweeter. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;m holding my breath for when John Stratton, executive VP and chief marketing officer at Verizon Wireless, and Josh Silverman, CEO of Skype, take the stage. Although seeing them do a rendition of &#8220;Cruisin&#8217;&#8221; would be pretty interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vzw.com\/news\/2010\/02\/pr2010-02-12a.html\">Verizon Wireless<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_ECUoFj2ZqWEhGPyocr0s5R1jwE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_ECUoFj2ZqWEhGPyocr0s5R1jwE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_ECUoFj2ZqWEhGPyocr0s5R1jwE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_ECUoFj2ZqWEhGPyocr0s5R1jwE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=xCgmSw_tRBA:KuEBHcBL-P0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=xCgmSw_tRBA:KuEBHcBL-P0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=xCgmSw_tRBA:KuEBHcBL-P0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=xCgmSw_tRBA:KuEBHcBL-P0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=xCgmSw_tRBA:KuEBHcBL-P0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I love me some Skype. I get to call and video chat with all my buddies from overseas without hefty fees, except I was accustomed to doing it only where Wi-Fi was available. While AT&amp;T and Apple have made some recent policy changes to allow VoIP over 3G, it looks like Verizon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314783","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\/5024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}