Skype Loses Out

The FCC feels that is has been generous enough when it comes to making cell phone carriers open. So much so that when Skype petitioned the FCC to push a ruling that already exists on landlines stating that any device can run on a network assuming that it doesn't cause any harm to that network was rejected. Skype had hoped to bring a nifty bandwidth hungry VoIP phone to the masses and let developers build for it, but somehow their model was just too much of a leap for the FCC. Maybe someday we can get this kind of thing right? I mean love or hate Skype but they have the right idea, that VoIP calling should be made available over networks, and it should be cheap. The day that we see a device like this running on the cell networks will pretty much be a nail in the coffin for most landline uses; it's just too hard to beat its value proposition.
[PC World]