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Opinion: Does integrated VoIP support in iOS 10 signal the beginning of the end for voice plans?

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<p>The first true mobile phones back in the 1980s did exactly one thing: phone calls. It wasn’t until 1994 that carriers introduced what was then a revolutionary idea – using mobile phones to send text messages. I’m old enough to remember when only geeks did it, and it took several years before it really took off as a mass-market thing.</p>
<p>Fast-forward to today and, for many of us, the very least-frequent thing we do with our phones is use them to make phone calls. When I do make a voice call, I’m as likely to use a VoIP app like FaceTime or Skype as I am the actual phone app on my iPhone.</p>
<p>With iOS 10, Apple makes that behaviour likely for even more people. The <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/ios-10-announcement/" target="_blank">VoIP API[/url] effectively allows apps like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Facebook calling and others to be integrated into the iPhone every bit as deeply as the phone app itself …</p>
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