That didn鈥檛 stop the barrage of complaints that the ban on 3G was arbitrary and designed only to support AT&T鈥檚 business model. Which, to be fair, is pretty accurate. Whether or not that makes it wrong, well, that鈥檚 up to higher powers to decide. But at least we鈥檙e better off than the folks in Germany, where the country鈥檚 official provider, T-Mobile, wants to ban use of the Skype app on both its 3G network and its extensive Wi-Fi hot spot network.
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Not only has T-Mobile said that the use of Skype is forbidden, but it鈥檚 also declared its intent to cancel the contracts of any users who use workarounds to run the program anyway. The company鈥檚 reasoning is that the program鈥檚 high data use would choke the network infrastructure and that it violates the customer contract, prohibiting VoIP鈥攁 clause apparently used by all other German mobile service providers as well.
Skype鈥檚 general counsel fired back in a blog post, saying: 鈥淭hey pretend that their action has to do with technical concerns: this is baseless. Skype works perfectly well on iPhone, as hundreds of thousands of people globally can already readily attest.鈥
Whatever the case, T-Mobile looks to have a steep road ahead of itself, as Skype is currently the top free app on the German App Store.
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