blog.tmcnet.com - 9/11/2008
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A ruling was just issued by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Hamburg, Germany banning VoIP on the Apple iPhone. Specifically, the sipgate VoIP app (image right) has been banned - all part of T-Mobile's ongoing fight to block VoIP on the iPhone. Apparently, the court felt ...
cellular-news.com - 9/15/2008
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cellular-news.com —
Germany's Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has issued
a declaration which bans the use of a VoIP...
application on the Apple iPhone. The application, Sipgate enabled iPhone users to make VoIP calls when connected to a local Wi-Fi hotspot in Germany. The ...
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T-Mobile Wins Court Injunction Blocking iPhone VoIP ...
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German court bans iPhone VoIP app Sipgate
CrunchGear —
Good luck trying to use VoIP app Sipgate on your iPhone in Germany, since a court there just effectively banned it.
T-Mobile, which is Germany’s exclusive iPhone provider, had argued in court that the application encourages users to jailbreak their iPhone. By jailbreaking the iPhone, users would be violating T-Mobile’s terms and conditions, apparently punishable under pain of death.
Any German readers—look at me, pretending we have German readers—willing to shed some light on this? Like, does T-Mobile there have so ...
Prohíben aplicación para hacer VoIP sobre el iPhone
Celularis —
... ya se lo preguntan y nosotros nos lo preguntamos también:
¿Un operador, o un gobierno en este caso, tiene derecho a decirnos cuál es la lista de aplicaciones que podemos, o no, instalar en un pedazo de hardware que hemos pagado en su totalidad?
¿Los planes que dicen ofrecer “libre acceso a internet con uso ilimitado” no son libres ni ilimitados?
¿Qué cosas, y cuáles no, se pueden hacer sobre la conexión a internet?
Vía PhoneBoy y TMCnet
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