[Asterisk-Users] Recommendations on a WiFi phone for *?

[Steve Kennedy]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:17:02PM +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

[snippage]
> I dunno... it looks like a cell phone, except it's not one. It would be 
> nice if it was a dual GSM / wifi phones which transparently switch to 
> VoIP when you have a strong enough signal. This way, it would provide 
> all the cost savings of VoIP with the convenience of GSM calls.
[more snippage]

This sounds very nice (GSM/WiFi roaming) but needs co-operation from the
GSM operators, which many are not happy doing as they lose revenue when
the call moves away from GSM.

BT (in UK) have launched a service called Fusion which allows roaming
between GSM and a Bluetooth basestation in the home that uses ADSL as
backhaul.

There is an open specification for this type of service, but few
operators have yet adopted it.


Steve

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