On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, nick may wrote:
> Wonder whether THIS will make it to the WMAM (world's most advanced
> market)...
>
> <snip>Motorola, a leading maker of mobile phones, and Skype, a leading
> Internet telephony company, said this week at 3GSM World Congress that
> Motorola would launch a lineup of products that are dubbed )B$B(BSkype
> Ready)B$B(B, including cell phones and handsets.</snip>
In terms of the technology being deployed, Japan has been there for some
time. Docomo has been selling a cellphone that also does VoIP over WiFi
for months now.
But you're right, the consumer availability is not there yet. I think
that Docomo is capable of doing it, but they're not going to until
someone else forces them into it. I am surprised that that is not
starting to happen, given the number of companies doing home wired VoIP
right now.
Say Yahoo Broadband started selling a router with WiFi built in (perhaps
they already do) and something like this:
http://www.nikotel.de/en/zyxel.htm
Heck, I'd buy one in a flash, not to mention a wireless access point for
my office.
cjs
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Received on Sat Feb 19 06:40:24 2005