Skype asks FCC to force open mobile networks
Published February 24th, 2007
Skype is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country’s mobile phone industry for “unlocked†devices and third-party applications—such as Skype.
The eBay unit, a pioneer in peer-to-peer VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol), petitioned the FCC this week to affirm that the landmark Carterphone decision applies to the cellular world. That ruling, which involved an early type of wireless handset, said carriers couldn’t stop consumers from attaching any device to the wired telecommunications network as long as it couldn’t do any damage.
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