Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 4:33 PM EST
By: Ari
Garrett Smith is doing a series of interviews about the (Near) future of the Voice over IP industry.
Today Garrett published an interview he did with me.
The one thing I keep stating during all my interviews is that we really all need to stop generalizing and looking at “”VoIP” as one.
Talking about the future of VoIP is really talking about the future of telecommunications, and some would argure that the “tele” part is not needed as well.
Even if we narrow the topic to business VoIP and consumer VoIP it may still be to wide.
In any case, read what I wrote and let me know what you think by commenting to this blog.
One Comment
AC
December 11, 2008 at 10:26 am
About using mobile VoIP.
Here are two examples:
Some of T-Mobile Blackberry phones can switch between Wifi VoIP and cellular. This is is designed mostly to happen at a home setting and the phone is attempting to switch seamlessly between the networks.
This feature is not that great or 100% seamless yet, but it works.
The Vonag e WiFi Phone (more like a cordless type phone) is really bad from my experience, some may call it mobile. I would not call this mobile WiFi, the one I used could not connect to many open public networks as most networks require you to sign on a web page and agree to terms in order to gain access. The Phone I tried was unable to do that. The fact is it did not work well even on a home WiFi setting.
AC