sipgate - VoIP for iPhone vs T-Mobile

sipgate - VoIP for iPhone vs T-Mobile. We've already heard some services about VoIP for iPhone such as iCall, and fring. Yeah, it's already ordinary that sipgate also brings VoIP to your iPhone. You can use sipgate to place and receive calls over Wi-Fi using any SIP-based VoIP-service. It can save mobile minutes, whenever Wi-Fi is available, bypass roaming charges, and place calls at virtually no cost when travelling abroad. What's interesting is that T-Mobile Germany has asked his company to cease and desist offering the company's flagship VoIP software.

According to Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate, Inc.,

T-Mobile disallows jailbreaking, running VoIP, instant messaging, and VPN applications as part of its subscriber contract. Salmon notes, however, that sipgate only works via WiFi (and not GPRS or EDGE), and therefore does not run on T-Mobile's network. He says, "for the time being our users are safe."

Salmon said "we may need to fight this all the way through the courts." He also suggests that it's largely a government policy issue for Germany, and wants to lobby for a net-neutral environment for telecom carriers.

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