Mobile industry group leaps into VoIP debate
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Industry body calls for customer awareness The Open Mobile Terminal Alliance, a mobile-phone industry body which counts Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3 amongst its membership, has published guidance for network operators and handset manufacturers on provisioning and maintaining VoIP settings on new handsets.â¦
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European consumer groups want a cap on mobile phone tariffs  for customers making roaming call outside their home country.
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T-Mobile is testing a service that combines VoIP and cellular access in hopes of catching up with its competitors.
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A VoIP supplier goes in search of something better than FTP.
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Mobile advertising looks set to be one of the most discussed topics at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but the challenge for the telecoms industry this year will be to prove it is more than just hype.
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AT&T Corp. Wednesday announced a number of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) initiatives, such as a program to develop common standards for the technology and an expansion of its international VOIP remote worker pilot project. But as the company tries to draw more corporate users to VOIP, its own research, also published Wednesday, showed that concerns about the quality of service continue to dog the market as a whole.
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A group of mobile phone operators and handset vendors is developing a third-generation mobile phone platform that combines many standard hardware and software components.
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A start-up wireless company has  proposed a high-stakes debate with Verizon Communications  before U.S. regulators considering how the government should  conduct an auction of valuable wireless spectrum.
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Eight consumer and public-interest groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, saying mobile phone providers should not be able to block text messages from political groups and advertisers.
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Is the mobile phone world ready for VoIP? New inexpensive rollouts and tests of high-speed wireless services indicate that VoIP on cell phones is coming, but VoIP pacesetter Skype says the price still is too ...Comment
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A new service promises cheaper mobile calls by exploiting VOIP, but it's not going to be easy. The big carriers must be considered, plus customers will have to punch lots of extra numbers. By Rachel Metz.
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America Online is building alliances with mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers in an effort to build its share of the emerging mobile instant-messaging market.
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Several more members of the mobile&#160;Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) are switching allegiance to the LiMo Foundation, this time including board and executive committee members, indicating that LiPS is losing steam.Orange and its parent France Telecom, Access and Open-Plug all plan to announce at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that they are joining LiMo. More vendors uniting behind LiMo could help to speed up the rate at which the companies can bring Linux-based devices to market.&quot;We probably will move out of LiPS at some point because it doesn&#39;t make sense to keep two different initiatives on the same topic,&quot; said Yves Christol, director of device development at Orange. Access and Orange Telecom will both join the board of LiMo. The president of LiPS, Haila Wang, works for France Telecom. Access and Open-Plug both have members on the LiPS board and executive committee.Montavista and Purple Labs have recently joined LiMo, though they appear to be staying active in LiPS as well. Trolltech recently quit LiPS in favor of LiMo. More may follow. Orange explained to the other LiPS members why it abandoned ship, &quot;and we believe some of them will share the same vision and will follow us and join LiMo,&quot; Christol said.LiPS appears to be holding out hope that some companies may continue to work with both groups. &quot;To the best of my knowledge, membership in one or any of these [organizations] is not an exclusive commitment,&quot; said Bill Weinberg, general manager of the LiPS Forum.Because the two groups take different approaches, they aren&#39;t in competition and are working toward a common goal, Weinberg said. &quot;Both organizations strive to fight fragmentation by improving interoperability of mobile applications and services across handsets and operators,&quot; he said.Timing appears to be driving many of these companies to gravitate toward LiMo. &quot;LiPS is essentially a standards-based organization,&quot; said Michel Piquemal, general manager for Access in France and director of strategic planning for the company in Europe. Most standards-setting processes take years to complete.LiMo, by contrast, has created a software stack made out of components contributed by various members. The&#160;first release of LiMo is expected in March. While&#160;LiPS has recently released a specification&#160;for some basic phone functions, LiMo plans to announce in Barcelona 18 LiMo phones, including some that are already on the market.&quot;Our approach is extremely fast and direct,&quot; said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo. &quot;The mobile industry, particularly in this phase, is dynamic and fast-moving -- and therefore, in order to make an impression, we have to do something that is practical and produces deliverables and is immediately usable by the industry.&quot;Other companies that planned to announce membership in LiMo on Monday include AMD, Renasas Technology, SoftBank and STMicroelectronics, bringing the number of members in the group to 32.LiPS and LiMo operate in addition to the Open Handset Alliance, the group Google started with its Android mobile software platform. Some companies have membership in both OHA and LiMo. So far, there isn&#39;t any indication that Google might try to align its efforts with LiMo.&quot;LiMo is fully open and we would be very receptive if Google expressed direct interest in working with us,&quot; said Gillis. &quot;LiMo is not in direct discussions with Google about Android joining LiMo.&quot;NOTE:This story was previously posted under embargo. It is now being reposted as it is available for immediate use online.
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Two vendors are releasing products for the enterprise that enable what they claim is seamless switching between cellular and standard voice-over-IP calls.
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TechWeb - The new members aim to strengthen the organization's efforts to create an open source mobile software platform.
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The telecommunications company is said to be in negotiations, in what may be the latest round of deal making in its industry.
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It joins the battle for mobile users with Google.