**As published in DIGIDAY:DAILY**

Video calls are fun. As the saying goes, once you start you can’t stop. A recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 7 percent of us have placed a video call on our mobile device and 23 percent have done so their desktop or laptop.

The mobile industry has been rallying for mobile video calling for years, but nothing has brought it to the fore as much as FaceTime from Apple. In true Apple fashion, the app just simply works. But in equal Apple fashion, FaceTime has its limitations and that’s where apps like Tango come in. Read more

While Verizon Wireless may have been the first carrier out of the gates with a major announcement leading up to CTIA in San Diego, AT&T Mobility didn’t wait long to throw its hat into the ring.

Just hours after Verizon Wireless announced some bold plans for a new partnership with Google — one directly aimed at Apple and AT&T nonetheless, AT&T said that it will no longer prevent VoIP apps from running on its network, the The Wall Street Journal reports.

Apps that were previously stripped-down to appease AT&T’s wishes can now be made to actually do what they were first intended to: make voice calls over the Internet. AT&T’s about-face on the issue will surely leave many iPhone users hoping for better apps from VoIP providers like Skype, however AT&T’s decision alone doesn’t not guarantee that Google Voice will ever have its day as an app on the iPhone. Apple has already admitted that it chose not to approve the Google Voice application on its App Store for its own reasons. Read more