Not even time to cheer for the arrival of the first VoIP applications on 3G , which came the cold shower. Skype, the most popular method for Internet telephony, has announced that by the end of 2010 will offer its service from the mobile phone Payment.

From SOS rates we learn that the rates will be 2 cents per minute for each call Skype-to-Skype and 5 euros per month for subscriptions. Figures not exorbitant, then, but enough to bring down one of the principles on which it is based on Skype phenomenon: the free calls within their network.

Hard to say what he weighed more on the decision of former eBay company, if the need to raise cash, rather than pressure from mobile operators, who have never digested the presence of a third party able to bypass their voice connections (and hence their prices).

The fact is that even for Skype network is not neutral : they connect to a data network from the Internet from a PC to call it a treatment (favoritism), who is using the phone is a different user, and as such should be taxed .

At this point, the word goes right to the users: they will decide whether to accept a small financial sacrifice just to enjoy an application tested and ready to use (like the one just released for iPhone ), or whether they migrate to competing services , less popular, but at no cost.