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In today’s fiercewireless newsletter Lynette Luna is asking if “Skype’s persistence finally paying off?”

I’m actually using Skype on my mobile since two weeks!

In an effort to install several mobile applications (e.g. Shozu) on my Nokia E71 to become truly always connected (like the Japanese I just visited), I’ve also installed fring a little application that allows you to connect e.g. with twitter, but also with your skype account. Other than the skype application for available for the E71, fring also allows you to do voice calls apart from the regular chats. It actually works quite well on the 3G network.

While most (almost all) mobile operators are still fighting skype, I have no doubt that with the proliferation of the new generation of mobile phones (iphone, Androids, Symbians) Skype will finally get some traction also in the mobile world. UK’s 3 might be the first who is actively pushing it (3’s strategy is worth a separate post another day!), but others are tolerating it and some MVNOs might be able to follow the lead.

Anyone on VoIP on mobile networks?