{"id":256,"date":"2009-05-14T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/14\/t-mobile-nokia-skype\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:56:00","slug":"t-mobile-nokia-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/t-mobile-nokia-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile, Nokia &amp; Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SgxPuI1-IYI\/AAAAAAAAD6s\/4mkHs0JZih0\/s1600-h\/t-mobile_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:60px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SgxPuI1-IYI\/AAAAAAAAD6s\/4mkHs0JZih0\/s200\/t-mobile_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Nokia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13970_7-10165241-78.html\">deal<\/a> with Skype did not go down too favourably with German carriers T-Mobile and Vodafone, and there had been <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/to-skype-or-not-to-skype-nokia-vs.html\">threats<\/a> that they would drop the respective Nokia devices (including the long-awaited hero handset <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/nokia_n97-2615.php\">N97<\/a>) from their device roadmaps. Today, T-Mobile provided some &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/entry\/419-t-mobile-germany-reconsidering-voip-strategy-skype-stripped-from-n97\/\">clarification<\/a>&#8221; on the issue: according to a spokesperson, T-Mobile apparently wants to ship the N97 but not with the Skype VoIP client installed (&#8220;it is up to us to decide what is on the device&#8221;).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was also said that the carrier was looking into options on how to deal with VoIP but that it was still early days. However, T-Mobile does apparently not block VoIP clients, neither Skype nor others&#8230; Hm, this does not sound like a convincing policy to me&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia&#8217;s deal with Skype did not go down too favourably with German carriers T-Mobile and Vodafone, and there had been threats that they would drop the respective Nokia devices (including the long-awaited hero handset N97) from their device roadmaps. Today, T-Mobile provided some &#8220;clarification&#8221; on the issue: according to a spokesperson, T-Mobile apparently wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[471,591,626,700],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-nokia","tag-skype","tag-t-mobile","tag-voip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-48","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}