electronista.com - 4/13/2009
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The European Commission is considering a measure to force acceptance of VoIP by cellphone carriers, reports say. The EU's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, has called for the EU to undo arbitrary obstacles to "innovative services" on cellphones; a draft of the VoIP measure is thought to ...
tgdaily.com - 4/11/2009
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tgdaily.com —
The European Union (EU) is preparing binding guidelines
for wireless carriers to allow VoIP services such as...
Skype to run over their cellular network. EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding stated that there action should be taken against carriers ...
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EU may force wireless carriers to allow VoIP on cellphones
tgdaily.com - 4/13/2009
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tgdaily.com —
Quizás puedan lograr bloquear llamadas VoIP durante algunos
meses, pero esta nueva forma de telefonía no tiene...
vuelta atrás. Skype es el Napster de la telefonía. No hay música, no hay voz, no hay películas: todo es lo mismo, sólo hay bits. ...
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EU may force wireless carriers to allow VoIP on cellphones
engadgetmobile.com - 4/13/2009
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We've seen it time and time again --
carriers using their power to strong-arm consumers into paying...
services that could very well be free. Over in Europe, the almighty EU is considering "binding guidelines" that could force wireless operators to ...
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Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services
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... cellular networks. It should be noted that all of this is still very preliminary at the moment, but if the Union can somehow force carriers to support these so-called "innovative services," we could see a very favorable (for consumers, anyway) domino effect. As it stands, each EU country has the ability to decide individually on how they deal with blocked internet services, but obviously an EU-wide mandate would seriously shake things up. Or cause unstoppable riots, one. [Via Electronista] Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services originally ...
Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services
Engadget —
... cellular networks. It should be noted that all of this is still very preliminary at the moment, but if the Union can somehow force carriers to support these so-called "innovative services," we could see a very favorable (for consumers, anyway) domino effect. As it stands, each EU country has the ability to decide individually on how they deal with blocked internet services, but obviously an EU-wide mandate would seriously shake things up. Or cause unstoppable riots, one. [Via Electronista] Filed under: Cellphones Carriers could be forced by EU to ...
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(In the meantime, by announcing the deal now, it can get investors excited about the separation and try to goad ...
eBay Planning IPO For Skype
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Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To Spin Off Skype, IPO For 2010
techcrunch.com 4/15/2009 — After earlier reports that Skype ’s founders were trying to buy back the company from eBay , the company has now released the news that it plans to spin off Skype as a separate company and file for an initial public offering. The IPO is ...
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Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 4/14/2009
From The Business Insider, April 14, 2009:eBay is finally dumping Skype...on the public market! Specifically, it's planning to spin the company out in an IPO next year.
(In the meantime, by announcing the deal now, it can get investors
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eBay to divorce Skype on Wall St —
The Register 4/14/2009
Hangs up on Web 2.0 telco dream eBay plans to spin off Skype sometime in 2010, having failed to turn itself into a Web 2.0 telecoms hybrid.… Whitepaper - The emerging IT shift toward business service automation
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