Vonage Submits Voice App For iPhone Will likely come with handy crippled 3G functionality Thursday Aug 27 2009 14:13 EDT Vonage this week submitted a VoIP application to Apple for use on the iPhone, a move that at one point this week drove the company's stock price up some 36%. Apple says that so far they haven't approved the application because of a mislabeled icon, something Vonage says they've already fixed in a re-submitted application. As was disclosed during last week's Apple, AT&T and Google Voice kerfuffle, expect the 3G functionality of the app to be crippled, given AT&T's contract with Apple prohibits any application that uses "AT&T's cellular network service to originate or terminate a VoIP session without obtaining AT&T's permission." For the good of the, uh, network of course -- and not at all because AT&T wants to protect voice revenues from the natural evolutionary path of wireless broadband. |
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Can we get off it please?Come on...I know this isn't going to be a popular view around here, but come on. At the end of the day, it's AT&T's network. Why in the hell would they allow a competitor to operate on its network and undercut their own service? Essentially, what everyone is wanting is to use the AT&T network without having to pay AT&T. If Vonage wants to get involved in the mobile phone game, they need to make a phone that operates completely off of Wi-Fi or build their own network.
Sorry but saying AT&T should let Vonage and other VOIP providers use their network is like saying UPS should ship Fed-Ex packages on their trucks and make sure they get there faster than UPS packages.
I realize AT&T is a big bad company that nobody likes, but lets criticize them where they deserve it: the quality of their network. Not nonissues like this. | |
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