{"id":328016,"date":"2010-02-16T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/409868ac7cb0379ddeca1cbac40d3ec3"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:15:00","slug":"article-verizon-wireless-and-skype-announce-unlimited-skype-to-skype-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/328016","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon Wireless and Skype announce unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94114-Screen_shot_2010-02-16_at_1.13.13_PM.png\" alt=\"Verizon Wireless Skype partnership\" width=\"507\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though some of Verizon Wireless&#8217; recent actions have pegged them as &#8220;stingy&#8221; in the user community, today&#8217;s joint press conference with the carrier and VoIP company Skype may change opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership between the two companies allows Verizon Wireless customers with select devices to make Skype-to-Skype phone calls around the world, send and receive instant  messages, and allow users to see when other contacts are online.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s no additional fee required &#8211; the feature works over your existing smartphone data plan.&nbsp; The potential downside?&nbsp; The application does not work over Wi-Fi, so if you&#8217;re outside of Verizon&#8217;s coverage area, you&#8217;re out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>The application will be available in March, and will be offered for the following devices:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94114-Picture-44-630x153.png\" alt=\"Verizon Wireless Skype supported devices\" width=\"630\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is exciting news, and more importantly, it&#8217;s <em>included<\/em> in your data plan.&nbsp; Better bang for the buck, if I do say so myself!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/16\/verizon-and-skype-make-sweet-music-together-with-new-mobile-app\/#more-26576\" >MobileCrunch<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dq6maXbz6kSZUPYS0qc3Wb2a7Jc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dq6maXbz6kSZUPYS0qc3Wb2a7Jc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dq6maXbz6kSZUPYS0qc3Wb2a7Jc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dq6maXbz6kSZUPYS0qc3Wb2a7Jc\/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\/ySOoIAXzklc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though some of Verizon Wireless&#8217; recent actions have pegged them as &#8220;stingy&#8221; in the user community, today&#8217;s joint press conference with the carrier and VoIP company Skype may change opinions. The new partnership between the two companies allows Verizon Wireless customers with select devices to make Skype-to-Skype phone calls around the world, send and receive [&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-328016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328016","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=328016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}