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Threes's Skype service doesn't work like classic Skype!

IN fact the part of the call that mobile is made as a normal circuit
switched calls that connects you to a Skype gateway inside the three
network, Only from that gateway is the call then sent over the classic
Skype IP system.

The app on your handset manages all this and when you click to call a
contact it sends some signalling to the gateway over a data channel to
say that user x is calling person y then it makes a call to the
gateway.

Its actually  very clever approach, mobile networks were built to
carry voice and do so very efficiently therefore it makes no sense to
take a voice call and convert in it into to data pas via a data
overlay to a voice network!

Therefore you need to be careful what you are trying to do with the 3
skypephone, the skype function won't work on any other network, and
most probably it won't work with another SIM as the gateway will need
to be provisioned with your mobile number.

Having said that its a very nice little offer!

Rgds
Sam


On 12/13/07, Ben Butterfield <Ben.butterfield at propellondon.com> wrote:
> > Does the account have to be "Skype enabled" or something to qualify it
>
> > for free Skype calling?
>
> Yeah. You will either need an X-Series bolt on, an X-Series tariff, or
> one of the new Mix and Match tariffs. AFAIK, all the other ones attract
> a data charge for use with Skype, and it ain't gonna be cheap innit.
>
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