iPhone and Those VoIP Applications
Source: www.voip-news.com
With the new Apple iPhone SDK giving developers a chance to craft and create all sorts of applications for the iPhone 3G, it’s no wonder that VoIP applications are popping up left and right.
What does that mean for AT&T? Not a whole lot. The company will get their monthly dues, regardless if the user is hooking into Wi-Fi to make some calls.
According to PC World:
The main reason for AT&T’s equilibrium, Frommer says, is that it’s already locked iPhone users into 2-year service plans with bundles of the domestic calling minutes you’re already planning to use. “The worst that could happen: You bump your calling plan down to a cheaper one,” Frommer writes.
I think he meant “the best that could happen.” Frommer doesn’t seem to think such a change is a big deal, but I’d really be interested in seeing if anything like that actually happens: users opting for minimum plans because 1) they do plan to make VoIP calls and 2)they want the iPhone mainly for mobile Web surfing and related stuff — data.
