Thread: Cheapeast Cell Phone Provider To Tether
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2009-01-11 , 12:58
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Originally Posted by icbolsh View Post
I have a noob question: If I am able to tether to my phone using a Data plan that allows me...would the ports for skype voip be blocked. Can my international friends call me on skype like they do when I'm in a WIFI network?
In theory, it should work fine.

However, Vodafone actively blocks Skype. Some other mobile telcos might also do this.

Mobile telcos don't like it when you use VoIP/SIP on their (mobile) data plans; often is declared illegal in AUP. Whether this has legal merit is questionable, but from a technological viewpoint they can do this.

However, if Skype works on your end via your mobile telco then it does not matter for your international friend. It will work for him too. If not, it might be his settings which are wrong.

With SIP you can define the codec you prefer to use to encode the voice data.
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