att - now permitting VOIP

[SDscorch]

i know i know.. not "android" news per se but... interesting none the less

(to me anyway)


att is reversing its policy of disallowing VOIP traffic

nice!



remember carriers weren't even allowing wifi on their phones? at first carriers thought of wifi as "the enemy" (or at least "the competition) - well, there's so much traffic on the cell networks from data users (and att's getting such a black eye over this) that carriers are EMBRACING the wifi side and *encouraging* users to logon to their wifi connection whenever possible to give their cell network a break

in fact, the iphone will "automatically" jump to a wifi network when available without the user action


(my opinion - ANY network would be suffering from the thrashing the iphone users are giving att's network)




but att kinda had a dilemma - if they permit VOIP, they lose voice traffic (and thus billable minutes - aka revenue)

but, by allowing VOIP over data networks, they're taking some burden off of their struggling cell network



its just interesting how its all working out

[thunderstruck]

another article on it http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune....ans-for-apple/