Bee Telecom out of Montreal wants to create a phone booth out of every hotspot according to a News.com report. The idea isn’t that far fetched as that’s similar to what SBC wants to do via FreedomLink as a cellular alternative.
For many months I’ve been writing about VoWiFi. Now it seems the mass market sites are catching on. MSNBC does a good job at getting the jist of the story focusing on things like Enterprise use, combined Cellphone/WiFi handsets and all the other things people who read blogs already know. Still it’s worth reading.
Leading router, TA and WIFI producer Linksys has issued a very cool news release about their line up of hot tech gifts on sale for the holidays as well as produced a holiday web oriented web site that offers rebates. Of all the companies in the hardware space Linksys seems to have the most clear … Read more
I’ve been touting the potential of VoIP over WiFi for many moons as longtime readers of this blog will recall. Now it seems the future is getting cleared as Glenn Fleishman in his most excellent and must read blog on all things WiFi and Wireless has pointed out via a Wall Street Journal. What is … Read more
This is a bit off topic but I can see how a WiFi phone and this service could work in many scenarios. If retailers nearby Starbucks started to work with T-Mobile they could make all kinds of offers to the sippers who are surfing. If services that offered ordering by phone posted their offers this … Read more
Tell me what readers don’t already know. As a long time believer that the future is WiFi handoff by cellphones when the connection is better, I’m not at all surprised to see the ongoing development of interoperability and interaction. Already the products are arriving ahead of the standards and the carriers are deploying them or … Read more
The last few days I’ve been busy reworking my house and how wired, or wireless it is as part of a cleaning house project and getting geared up for a new year in just 60 days. I bought a new Samsung laser printer that is better, faster and less costly than the ink jets are … Read more
As you read this, it makes more sense why the Pulver Communicator is heading in this direction. Wanna bet that others start going in this direction? I can see XTEN developing an app, as well as a few others. As a RIM original user who is now on RIM generation III version hardware, their vision … Read more
Phone Plus has a report about the rapidly growing VoWiFi market. First there may be something new about the Net2Phone WiFi handset compared to the Pulver Innovations unit and the Zyxel Presige that has been out for over six months. According to one of the Net2Phone folks the the firmware is different. As a service … Read more
I can’t say it enough. CallVantage has the best service, but their lack of a softphone is a setback in many ways. Now that more of the WiFi networks are looking at VoIP, the softphone on a laptop is the way to go. Today Boingo and Vonage did the mating dance. Since I predict Boingo … Read more
