That’s right. Apple has lifted the restrictions for developers so that they can write VOIP apps that work over AT&T’s 3G network. Back in October, AT&T lifted the restriction on their network and informed Apple and the FCC about it.
Yesterday, Apple released a new SDK for the iPhone and the new iPad. In this SDK, the restriction has been lifted. iCall has already updated their iPhone app, and many others will soon follow no doubt.
I’ll be curious to watch and see how much (or even if) AT&T complains about this extra data usage on their network.
Jonathan is a self-proclaimed geek who likes pretty much anything tech-related. He is especially into Linux, but is interested in Apple and Microsoft tech as well. Jonathan is also into a little bit of gaming - he owns a PS3 and a Wii, but with his limited budget only owns a handful of games for both consoles.
For money, Jonathan works at a large engineering firm. He works in a datacenter as part of a group of 3 managing about 200 servers (and growing!), most Microsoft, some Linux and about half are virtualized using VMware.