Lines Are Drawn Between VoIP Players and Mobile Operators Over MVoIP

The battle lines have been drawn between mobile operators and VoIP service providers with regard to MVoIP. Currently, T-Mobile is blocking Truphone, according to Om Malik.

While mobile operators cannot see their revenues being affected by the MVoIP players through their cheap VoIP services, they shouldn’t forget that VoIP calls could still be billed at data rates when users are outside of WiFi areas.

James Tagg, CEO of Truphone explains,

This affects every new entrant into mobile telecommunications because the only company that can facilitate interconnection with T-Mobile is T-Mobile. It amounts to T-Mobile being able to veto a new entrant into the market. This would put telephony back 100 years, to a time when interconnections were not assured.