I tried using skype on my iPhone last year. Did not work on mobile network but was good on wifi. Tried Viber. Same issue. These are disruptive changes and are the future of mobile communication. Unfortunately the mobile plans that we buy are structured around generating maximum revenue for the network operators from called minutes and data plans are generally limited.
-AV
The future of mobile companies will be selling reliable mobile internet plans and less of the minutes blocking the revenue leak when users switch to wifi. There needs to be significant change in technology handling mobile data though. Data connection on mobile are also not reliable and consistent. Walk in central London and monitor your data connection you will find it drops and comes back frequently. Once they are reliable users can select the call service provider like skype or viber. If the person to be called is on the same service it can result in a free call. Of course you need emergency calling also included and needs to be sorted out and this will be for the smartphone users only!
May be a year or probably 2 before we start seeing good and reliable data plans!
-AV
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