T-Mobile in Germany, however, threatened that it may take action to prevent its customers from using Skype on the iPhone. On the flip side, an open-Internet advocacy group is asking the FCC to see if AT&T and Apple are violating federal rules by restricting Skype to just Wi-Fi.
This is serious.
On one hand we have carriers moaning that they don’t want to be relegated to being a dumb pipe and on the other hand they’re screaming and shouting and pulling their hair out trying to stop the future.
It’s that obvious. They’re trying to stop the future.
The future is data. It’s web, it’s email, it’s RSS, it’s Twitter and it’s Voice over IP. While the carriers hang desperately onto their precious voice minutes, limited texts and capped data plans and try to block voice data (like Skype) and SMS rebroadcasts (like Twitter) but the writing is on the wall.
Carriers need to look out. The Future called. We’re coming for you.