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Clever Fring service has been banned by Skype — boo!

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Once again we look back just across a World Cup-fueled weekend haze and recall that nice Fring iPhone app which enabled iPhone 4 users to have jolly little video chats with iPhone, Android or Symbian devices over WiFi or 3G.

A happy time.

The company was really pleased with the take-up of the App, but had to limit use of Skype. Now it looks like Skype is preventing users of Fring from accessing its network, and, indeed, is threatening legal action. Shame!

Fring are very unhappy, saying,

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