Skype, the Web Phone Giant, Brings Cheap Calls to Cellular

The article that I read for this week is called "Skype, the Web Phone Giant, Brings Cheap Calls to Cellular." If you don't know, Skype is an internet calling service that uses web cams so you can view the person you are talking to over the computer. I currently use Skype about once a week to talk to my brother who is in the Marines and is now in Japan. It is nice because I am able to see him and talk to him over the computer for free, however, i have to be on my computer to be able to do it.

Now, Skype is moving on to mobile phones. They are planning to make their free software available right away for for people with an iPhone or an iTouch and at the beginning of may they plan to also make it availible for people with blackberry phones. Many cellular companies have had their eye on programs like Skype, threatened that if it was to go on to mobile phones, then people would use Skype for things like text messeging(which would be free) instead of using the data plans that they would otherwise have to pay for. I think that it was a good idea for AT&T to bring Skype onto their network because I think it will draw a lot more customer to them, as did the iPhone.