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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by andyking on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @01:33PM (#672437)
The British network "3" (that's their name!) actively encourage it, selling dedicated Skype phones and running a fairly heavy ad campaign promoting "free calls forever": http://www.three.co.uk/Company/3G_Network/Skype

Calls made via Skype don't eat up your data plan and aren't charged by the minute - they're actually free. I have one and it works surprisingly well, even in patchy coverage where voice calls break up. Whether it really will be forever, I don't know...

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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by pieter on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @03:27PM (#672600)
Yes, but that only works with their supplied phones. You can still use Skype on other phones, but you'll have to pay the bandwidth cost of £5 / month for 1GB.
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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by listic on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @03:33PM (#672605)
£5 per month or per GB?
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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by pieter on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @03:41PM (#672610)
You get a GB, which is valid for a month. If you want more, you can pay another £5. (or £2.50 for 500MB which is valid for a week)
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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by listic on Friday June 26, 2009 @06:57AM (#675254)
Well, it's not that expensive. GB is much, isn't it? Here in Russia we pay around 1 ruble/MB which amounts to £20/GB, that's with recent price drops, which I consider decent.

There are no cellular providers like the "3", but on the other hand, phones are not locked to the operator as a rule.

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Re:HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, ... by bodhi on Thursday June 25, 2009 @01:18AM (#673203)
As far as I know, that's because the Skype call isn't actually routed over the data connection, it transfers the voice via the existing voice network and the other end is hooked into a Skype gateway.

[Citation Needed] but I don't have time to dig one up at work

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