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With the phone, Vonage subscribers can make and receive phone calls within range of Wi-Fi wireless access points normally found in homes, airports, cafes, fast food restaurants and other high-trafficked areas, Executive Vice President Michael Trembolet said. The phone could also work inside any home outfitted with Wi-Fi networks, he said.
Vonage also will begin selling its $35-a-month unlimited local and long-distance services to broadband-enabled homes in the United Kingdom, Mexico City, Switzerland and some Pacific Rim territories later this year, he said.
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"We have to be aware of our competition," Trembolet said. He adds that the company hasn't yet chosen which manufacture Vonage will buy the Wi-Fi phones from.
At the VON conference, AT&T global networking technology services President Hossein Eslambolchi said the company would "continue to be industry leader in VoIP. We will always be better than those of our competitors."
Vonage, AT&T and Qwest Communications International are just three of more than a dozen providers of VoIP--technology for making phone calls that uses the most popular method of sending data from one computer to another.
For now, Internet telephony services typically promise consumers a smaller phone bill, largely because VoIP providers operate free of any regulations. Connecting phone calls over the Internet also opens the door to advanced communications services that tie voice together with e-mail, instant messaging and videoconferencing--something that Microsoft and others are already working to achieve.
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Jim Miller
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of the giant telecom's? VoIP travels over
regulated telecommunications media. My VoIP
phone goes through my cable modem to the CATV
line that runs into my house. I can see the
federal regulation charges that I incur each and
every month on my cable bill.
Journalists and politicians, please get it
right. What is be proposed is "double
regulation," and it is a slippery slope. Once
you double regulate VoIP you have opened the
door to regulating the web, ftp file transfers,
h.323 conferencing, and every other service
provided over the internet.
The government already gets its nickel from my
VoIP service through my cable provider.
Anything else is robbery by the government.
When Vonage and others wake up and realize that a cellular phone with embedded VoIP (wireless or not) capability is the most attractive option here, then this service will really take off.
Everyone already has cellphones. Why not combine both in one device?
See details of this idea on
http://geocities.com/karlsson/celliphone.html