BARCELONA, Spain–Josh Silverman, the chief executive of Skype, the voice over Internet phone service, could tick off the names of mobile phone operators that block his company’s service.
But for Silverman, a 41-year-old Michigan native, it is quicker to name those that allow it, no strings attached.
« The two operators that have really embraced us are 3 in Europe and Verizon Wireless in the United States, » Silverman said Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress, the industry’s annual convention, in Barcelona. « But we are making progress, and operators are beginning to change their attitudes. » […]
« Such practices illustrate how operators’ business models based on control and discrimination of data flows really harm competition as well as the fundamental freedom of communication allowed by Internet, » said Jérémie Zimmermann, the director of La Quadrature du Net, a group in Paris that opposes efforts to control public access to the Internet. […]
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