Fring accuses Skype for blocking VoIP

16th July, 2010 by adina
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Fring has recently claimed Skype has had an anti-competitive behavior after having blocked its use for Skype chats. Everything happened after Fring had to stop Skype, for a limited time only, to accommodate loading from video chats on iPhone 4. Accusations formulated by the application developer were related to Skype not letting Fring to get back the service and forcing users to exclusively run Skype’s home-made application.

Avi Shechter, who has been a co-founder of the company, said he would be very happy to see Skype changing its policy and get Fring reconnected, but did not mention an eventual progress in getting back the service.

A spokesman from Skype said that it was not certain if Fring had followed the licensing terms of use when implementing Skype. He also blamed Fring for blocking access. However, the spokesman did not make clear why Skype had no problems with the implementation of Fring for the other four previous years when it had also been active.

Fring has defined itself as being a service which tries to unify communications. In addition to what Skype has got, Fring has had Twitter and multiple IM networks as part of the most recent feature set. As for two-way video chat, it has been a mainstream feature only lately with addition of iPhone and Android support.


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