Skype files for IPO on the same day that Google - Verizion issue a joint statement re a 'non open wireless Internet'

The Smartphone Wars are on!

If you look at my earlier post today, where I trashed the supposed 'commitment' of Google and Verizon to net neutrality, then you know that these two giants have plans for the mobile web.

And the mobile web is the future.

And services like Skype, which are destroying international calling via landline, have the potential to do the same to wireless calls. That is, reduce the cost of a call from smartphone to smartphone, to anywhere on the planet from  anywhere on the planet, to zero.

Think they won't go after Skype? Think Verizon will watch their voice traffic margins, particularly on international calls, go to nothing? Think Google Voice will not leverage the massive Google war chest while Skype continues to grow?

This is war!