Trying to downplay the havoc Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile will wreak on the mobile telecoms industry, Ballmer chose a topical Valentine’s Day theme for his announcement....But Ballmer’s announcement may be closer to a St Valentine’s Day massacre than a love letter for the mobile operators concerned.
Microsoft has developed a free voice-over-IP service for mobile phones: Think skype on your mobile. This would mean free phone calls from your mobile whenever you're in a WLAN. (Which at the moment isn't the case in the subway, but it is at universities, in office buildings and plenty of coffee shops, for example.) For the big mobile phone service providers like vodafone etc this will have some nasty impact; For users & consumers it'll be paradise...
Microsoft has developed a free voice-over-IP service for mobile phones: Think skype on your mobile. This would mean free phone calls from your mobile whenever you're in a WLAN. (Which at the moment isn't the case in the subway, but it is at universities, in office buildings and plenty of coffee shops, for example.) For the big mobile phone service providers like vodafone etc this will have some nasty impact; For users & consumers it'll be paradise...
peterb - 20. Feb, 16:09
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