Skype to Storm the iPhone

According to GigaOm, Skype for the iPhone, possibly at the CTIA Wireless conference next week in Las Vegas.

It will be interesting to see how the availability of a free VOIP service will change the economic dynamics of the iPhone-carrier relationship. While it will impact the amount of long-distance business that the carriers generate from iPhone customers, it may balance out if iPhone users eat up more wireless minutes to make long-distance calls. (Note: This is assuming consumers aren’t on bucket plans or high volume minute plans.)

As Om points out, Skype’s ability to go mobile is a key part of its growth strategy. But it’s still interesting that Skype is being able of launching zn iPhone application given how closely Apple guards the application “garden”.

Another thought is how much of an impact will Skype having an iPhone application have on eBay’s efforts to sell Skype. It can’t hurt to have an application on the world’s hottest wireless device.

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