Skype is now widely available for most of the platform, from Symbian to Android, you’ll find an app for Skype everywhere. Now that Skype also supports Video Calling feature in their mobile apps, the trend of its usage is increasing everyday on a healthy pace.

But the biggest problem with adopting Skype as your main source of making local and International calls is its dependency on high-data-rate network, which is mostly wifi. Whenever you’re on a hotspot, you can easily make a call from Skype, but you can’t rely on it since it will require WiFi which is not available whenever required.

The alternate way could be using a 3G network, whose data rate are sufficient enough to handle a Skype call, but since the competition between cellular service provider is already heated, they won’t let Skype in the race of providing lower calling rates, and therefore most of the 3G service providers won’t allow you to make any call from Skype over your 3G Network. Though AT&T provided this facility in USA.

Now this problem has got a solution, and its available only for iPhone users now. There’s an app which you’ll need to install on your iPhone to make calls from Skype using your 3G Network. Here’s what you need to do:

• Jailbreak your iPhone. Search this blog about “Jailbreak iPhone” and you’ll find some guides, like this.
• Launch Cydia, and search for VoIPOver3G. Install it.
• Turn off WiFi to test the 3G capability. Launch Skype and login to your account.
• Now you should be able to make calls with Skype.

If you plan to use it more often, then I recommend buying an unlimited data plan from your carrier, since this application would be sucking a lot of bandwidth.

If you have any questions, or faced any problem during the procedure then please feel free to leave a comment below.