AT&T Opens the Door for Google Voice and Skype on 3G

AT&T announced it will now allow voice over IP technologies on their 3G network. This opens the door for applications like Google Voice and Skype to be used on the iPhone on 3G as well as Wifi. This announcement is long overdue and comes a few weeks after AT&T opened the door to MMS on the iPhone. AT&T must be feeling more confident in their network these days even though cities like Chicago still have large pockets of missing 3G coverage as well as saturated networks. There's certainly been pressure and frustration from Apple for AT&T's handicapping of the device for all these months. AT&T has not been the partner Apple was hoping they would be. Yesterday's news of the end of the Rogers exclusivity arrangement in Canada shows that AT&T's iPhone dominance could end within a year.