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Re: With Three deal, is Skype killing voice revenues for carriers? Not yet

DrVoIP — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:59:54 -0000

Yeah , i believe that this is no threat to carrier services in UK ..since they have their set of customers base.

Re: With Three deal, is Skype killing voice revenues for carriers? Not yet

matthaus — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:56:16 -0000

Good observation, Alan. We also wondered about that as it's the big question as you say.

Update: We were only able to obtain the information that the service runs on a circuit switched network.

Re: With Three deal, is Skype killing voice revenues for carriers? Not yet

Alan P — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:23:25 -0000

Liked your report, very informative, but there is no information on whether this SIM based Skype service uses the 3G voice connection for the wireless link (the iSkoot and Skype Lite architecture) or the 3G data connection.

Seems to me a fundamental point but no one is discussing it.

On asking 3UK PR I got the following email response:

<quote>The 3 UK 3G network has been designed and built for the mobile internet. 3UK ‘circuit-switch’ Skype calls to use their voice channel instead of our data channel giving a clearer and stronger connection.</quote>

Re: With Three deal, is Skype killing voice revenues for carriers? Not yet

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