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All hopes of saving money using Skype to connect calls via high speed data networks accessed from your mobile phone will have to be curbed for the time being. According to reports from the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas, Skype does not have any immediate plans to release an official client for mobile handsets.

Don’t expect a version of Skype for cellular phones anytime soon. A company executive told Reuters Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that data plans are still too costly to make such a version viable.

While it may seem to many like a cop-out, especially considering it has already teamed with British cellular provider 3 to offer a mobile version of its software. However, that company offers a flat rate for data access, something no other carrier is doing.

Those attempting to use the software developed for 3 on another network would find it inoperable: the company actually uses a voice channel to place the data calls.

Was anyone else waiting patiently for Skype to go mobile? I know I was. I was looking forward to making good use of the superb data connection that Sprint offers its customers. I guess we’ll have to wait a little longer. When will Skype go mobile?