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T-Mobile blocks Skype for German iPhones


German telecommunications giant T-Mobile will not allow their customers to use the new Skype application for the iPhone, the company told The Local on Tuesday.


The internet telephony (VoIP) service Skype allows users to make telephone calls for free, or at least significantly more cheaply than traditional telephone providers. There have been several unofficial applications for mobile devices in use for some time, but the first official iPhone application for the service launched on Tuesday – free of charge – to a host of excited media chatter.