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Skype Unleashed Onto Cell Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phree-as-in-phones dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today Hutchinson announced that it would provide unlimited cell phone to cell phone Skype calls via a 3G connection. This new service, called X-series, is part of a new alliance made up of Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson. According to the article, users will also be able to 'search Google and Yahoo, send MSN instant messages to their friends, watch their TVs from a Slingbox, access their computer at home with Orb and buy or sell stuff on eBay.' Users will only get charged a monthly fee for access, in a similar way to broadband charges."

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  1. Fine print... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prob is that the fine print for unlimited data plans says no voip!

  2. This is so cool! by Slithe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I will be able to use my phone as . . . a phone!

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    1. Re:This is so cool! by Firehed · · Score: 3, Funny

      Better talk really quietly then... that'll make everything smaller!

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  3. and in soon to be news....... by bherman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson have announced plans to discontinue their free mobile services.

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  4. eletro manifesto by guilhermesa · · Score: 1, Funny
    Fuck I've been sitting here trying to reason why competitive companies would be willing to lock a share price from one of their operations. Isn't it illegal for the government to allow an alliance in an industry that needs to stay competitive?

    Fuck, it's the end. The company name is 3? The service is called X-Series. And I'm living in a joke, right??! Someone allowed the (1) creation of the ultimate fortress in the history of business technology. Hopefully not! (2) the UK, a country without a Constitution, can now be the place to begin tracing activities of human beings. Excuse? Yes, you're not being monitored, you're loosing privacy under any suspecting evidence of wrongdoings. Why, it's Terrorism, of course... Again! The cost? Zero, everything is being privatized. They all win, because there is a contract from 'Tres' with a term to commit to all who delivers. Ask for the contract, it exists. Suckers. Now we sink because Osama said so and the rich listened.

  5. Re:That'd be Hutchison, not Hutchinson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You must be new here.

  6. Kindly dispense with the "unleash" metaphor by mi · · Score: 2, Funny
    Skype Unleashed on to Cell Phones

    Dear SlashDot!

    Few metaphors are as worn-out and abused as the "unleash" one. Please, leave it to the marketoids, so that we can continue to spot them the same way, we spot head-hunters by the "touch base" metaphor.

    Thank you very much! Sincerely,

    The Audience

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