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No Skype for You!

March 31, 2009 18:17:24.238

If you're a Canadian iPhone user, there's no skype love for you:

"There is a patent-license issue in Canada which prevents us from making Skype available on the iPhone," Chaim Haas, a spokesperson on behalf of Skype, told ComputerWorld Canada in an e-mail.

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Didn't want it anyway!

[Tom K] March 31, 2009 18:21:46.916

I'd much rather give my money to my wireless carrier, so they can continue to invest in and improve the infrastructure.  That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[atoenne] April 1, 2009 3:56:03.889

and presumably no Skype on the iPhone in Germany as well. T-Monopoly T-Mobile announced to ban Skype traffic on their mobile network. The officials claim this would damage their network performance and would give their customers a worse voice quality experience than expected from T-Mobile. That reason created quite some laughter here. 

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