Jesse Kopelman has a guest column GigaOm and goes into lengthy detail about the next wave of mobile phone service that’s looming here in the USA and tells us who he expects the players to be.
As a current EvDO mobile data user when I’m on the road, I can admit that voice today is not an option, but as the service levels and speeds improve and increase the sales of data plans will likely swell.
Mobile VoIP doesn’t need WiMAX / WLAN / 3G
Most important is to be reachable outside WLAN / 3G. 4S newcom thus forwards incoming VoIP calls for free over a GSM gateway to the cell phone. Outgoing mobile calls are free because they use calltrough over the internet. No WLAN necessary, just a ch…