Vodafone shows cellular that they twirl Skype

HANOVER - The Vodafone showed new models of cellular that they twirl Skype in fair in Germany.The Vodafone, more international cellular operator of the world with more than 200 million subscribers, showed in the thursday called by the Internet made from cellular with software of the Skype.Affirming that it will be able to launch in the future the service, nicknamed Starfish, the Vodafone showed the application in the biggest fair of technology of the world, the CeBIT. “Not yet we decide if we go to launch it or the commercial terms and prices”, said Jan Holzberg, manager of product of the Vodafone Group.The Starfish allows that an user of cellular sees a list of contacts of some groups of colloquies, as MSN, Yahoo, AOL and Skype, and orders messages or makes a call for the Internet for some of them.The call made for the service uses only the canal of cellular telephony enters the device of the user and the station radio-base. The remain of the linking is completed by the Internet, exactly if the call crosses the world, different of the normal linkings that are carried by common telephonic nets.The software of the Starfish in the cellular one is essentially the same Skype program that is used for operator “3”, rival of lesser transport of the Vodafone, controlled for the Hutchison Whampoa. The service of the “3” was launched year passed in attempt to find new customers and to extend net traffic.The Starfish can cannibalize the traditional operation of cellular telephony of the Vodafone will have been launched, but the company, in the paper of market leader, needs to defend its participation against rivals.The service is a signal of that the Vodafone, greater cellular operator of the world is of China, and the Skype, greater company of telephony for the Internet of the world, with 200 million users almost registered, is finally if approaching. The Skype is controlled for eBay.