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Merging WiFi VoIP Into Cellular Service

Posted by timothy on from the mix-and-match dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The New York Times (registration required) reports that Motorola, Proxim and Avaya are expected to announce today that they will jointly develop technology to allow wireless communications to jump between networks without interruption. This appears to involve making use of WiFi for phone service where it's available, thus converting WiFi hotspots into congestion relief for overloaded cellular networks, and, of course, making cell phones into WiFi terminals."

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  1. For the love of god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    PLEASE post an interesting story, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

  2. moron the rise & faults..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    of sum wannabe billyunheir boyz, who sighned on the dotdead LIEn, without reading between the LIEns.

    'merging' other folks efforts, into billyuns in phonIE payper, for 'investors'? what an inveNTion.

    va.msn.?net? don't even bother. we think they were duped. whois going to WINd up with the saykrud kode of the forgerIE? stay tuned...., as the corepirate dinosaur "bull" rages through the hobbyist's camp (destroying it), on its way to the tarpits