Mobile VOIP is on the march
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InfoWorld - Nearly one year after Skype stole the headlines at the 3GSM World Congress with its&#160;plans to offer a mobile version&#160;of its Internet phone, a couple of nimble startups -- and not the Net telephony pioneer itself -- appear to have found a way to make this type of service work, both technically and commercially.
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Flip it over and you have a VoIP phone.
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(InfoWorld) - Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs. That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators. VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services provided over mobile phone networks will have "far less impact" than those offered over fixed-line networks, Akhavan said Tuesday on the sidelines of a news conference at theÂ 3GSM conferenceÂ in Barcelona. "There are all sorts of technical issues that make mobile VOIP services difficult to implement," he said. Technical issues related to how networks pass on IP addresses of mobile users have not been completely resolved, he noted. "Take reachability, for example: How can the call come to me?" Akhavan also said emergency phone service and "always on" connectivity are also big issues, since staying online takes up bandwidth on pricey mobile networks. And then there's price: "When people talk about VOIP, they think free," Akhavan said. "With any mobile service provided over the Internet, you're going to need to buy a data package." Mobile VOIP "will take a small share" of revenue generated by mobile voice services, he said. Akhavan's views on the technical and commercial hurdles are shared even by some of the key advocates of mobile VOIP -- namely Skype. In a recent interview with a Finnish newspaper, Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m spoke of "technical obstacles" and conceded that efforts to make Skype work had been taking "much longer than expected." Earlier, Eric Lagier, Skype director of business development for hardware and mobile, called the lack of attractive flat-rate fees for most mobile phone services a key commercial hurdle to mobile VOIP usage. He said the company didn't want to be in a position of claiming that its service is free, but facing users who at the end of the month are docked with a huge broadband usage fee. At last year's 3GSM World Congress, Skype and the Hutchison 3 Group (Hutchison 3G)Â announced a partnershipÂ to provide what they had hoped to become the world's first commercial VOIP service for mobile phones. Hutchison 3G, which operates IP-based mobile broadband networks in several European markets, was one of the first mobile phone operators to embrace VOIP, a technology many in the industry view as a major threat to their cash-cow voice business.
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A VoIP expert at a national voice and data carrier draws on his experience to help you smooth the transition.
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Skype handset to launch Monday 3 UK has admitted that it's working on a Skype phone to bring VoIP connectivity to more of its mobile customers.â¦
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BridgePort Networks, Oberthur Card Systems and CounterPath  Solutions today announced the commercial availability of the MobileSTICK  solution, first previewed at 3GSM World Congress in February 2006 (then  referred to as SoftMOBILE with USB SIM authentication).
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The voice-over-IP market is growing, and by next year, 50% of all lines installed in the U.S. are expected to rely on VoIP technology -- despite continuing concerns that installations can be costly.
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Operators and manufacturers to collaborate on next-gen mobile phone platform.
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Users of Google Calendar can now access their schedules from their mobile phones.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41914) has announced the addition of Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction to their offering.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft will release a public beta of new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) server software by the end of this month.The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said.
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Opinion: SIPphone&#39;s one good point is that Vonage-only router/terminal adapters must say Vonage on the boxâand Vonage seems to be hurrying to do that consistently.
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VoIP services are cropping up all over the place. We answer your questions about this new breed of phone services.
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Third-party products will bring VoIP functions to PlaySation in some regions this year.
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Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes flying through European airspace.
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Midlands-based VoIP (voice over internet protocol) operator Group 3 Technology has unveiled details of the company's new web browser- based internet phone service, called VePhone.
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It&#39;s looking more and more like Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is ready for prime time. Today, SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC) said that it will provide VoIP services to Ford (NYSE: F) in one of the largest deployments of its type to date.