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Vonage Testing Mobile VoIP Service Routers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-you-here-me-there dept.

kamikaze-Tech writes "In a Vonage VoIP Forum article titled Vonage Testing Mobile VoIP Service Routers we learn that Vonage is doing customer trials involving a new Linksys Wi-Fi mobile service router. From the article comes the claim: "With the special router and handset, individual customers would be free to roam about their home or office, untethered from a modem or phone jack and without a connection to a laptop or desktop computer." Suggesting the new routers are geared for installation in Wi-Fi hot spots: "In theory, someone should be able to walk into a Wi-Fi-enabled cafe, fire up a laptop, log on to the Internet and start dialing. But that now requires technical know-how and configuration hassles that most consumers don't want to deal with. The new routers are designed to do most of the heavy lifting.""

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  1. So what by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have a cordless phone system at home (with Vonage) and I have a cell phone with global roaming. What do I get with this that I don't already have now that is simple and reliable?

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  2. these are exciting times by clovercase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    right now you might pay for a phone line, a fax line, a cellphone, cable tv and internet.

    there are lots of convergences going on, but this is a big one. the day may be coming when you spend 1/4 or 1/3 of what you are paying now for the whole suite of pipes.

  3. Re:Wow.... by trailerparkcassanova · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not take the money from the Vonage account and all the shit you need to buy to make it work and apply it to more cellphone minutes?

  4. Vonage Testing Mobile VoIP Service Routers by johnnyboy30 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the heck do we need this for?? As a previous user commented - use a cell phone, use a cordless phone - this makes little or no sense to me. Technology for the sake of technology is not practical!

  5. What is wrong with standard cordless phones? by JPriest · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why not just use a wired MTA and a standard cordless phone? Would that not leave them "free to roam about their home or office"?

    People seem to believe 802.11 is required for a wireless home phone but that is not true. The real point behind using 802.11 for VoIP is so you can build the MTA into the phone and use it not just at home but roam from any home/buisness/hotel/coffee shop with wireless internet access.

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  6. How are these routers different? by tedhiltonhead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, this is supposed to allow Vonage users to use Wi-Fi handsets? I'm not clear what these routers do differently than any other router that supports SIP NAT traversal. The article mentions selling this to hotspot operators; what does this router offer an operator? Can somebody explain?