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AT&T, Under FCC Pressure, Now Allowing VoIP Over 3G for iPhone

att-logo Today AT&T, in a surprise announcement, said it will begin allowing VoIP applications to utilize its 3G network. Before now, VoIP apps such as Vonage and Skype were allowed on Apple’s iPhone, under the condition that they be restricted to Wi-Fi or traditional telephone airtime.

Back in August AT&T admitted, in a letter to the FCC (PDF), to having an agreement with Apple to not create applications that would use their 3G network for VoIP.

It seems odd that

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