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goes on. The latest: VoIP from WiFi hotspots over your cell phone.
Only a limited number of people are willing to make phone calls on their PCs. But “everyone” is comfortable calling on a mobile handset. But the new mobile handsets are all really PCs – they just don’t look that way. Truphone is adding capabilities to these call-friendly PCs the way that Skype (and its less successful predecessors) added capability to traditional PCs. And Telepocalypse has an interesting discussion of some of the issues. One riff:
The picture has been emerging for a long time and the power is now definitely in the hands of the handset manufacturers. It puts Intels investments in WiMax into perspective and makes you wonder whether the future will be Handset manufacturers subsidising (or just providing) the network access (and requiring, say, Nokia branding of the access) rather than the current, reverse situation.
posted by James DeLong @ 2:48 PM | Telecom
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