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Hybrid Fixed and Mobile Telephony

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-the-voip-version dept.

Iorek writes "Both Ericsson and BT have launched telephony products that erode the barriers between mobile phones and landlines. Ericsson's One Phone is a PBX system that can treat any mobile phone as an extension of the corporate phone network, while the BT Fusion handset behaves like a conventional fixed line cordless phone when it's near its base station (Bluetooth connection), and connects to the Vodafone network once it's out of range."

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  1. This is just the opposite of what you want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What we really need is a mobile phone that acts like a corded phone whenever it is out of range of a cell.

  2. Baah! by GillBates0 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You young 'uns and your fancy schmancy "Hybrid Telephony". Back in my day, we didn't need these teensie Mobile Telephones" with their fancy "Bluetooth connections" to talk. All we had was our strong manly voices and a favorable wind ter carry it across.

    I remember the day when my old Missus had 'er first baby. I didn't go around dialling fancy numbers in any fancy telephone. Just walked up the hill, hollered for the midwife and walked back up home. No sirre, no fancy "Hybrid Telephony" for us back then, and we loved it.

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    1. Re:Baah! by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

      You had mitosis? We had to wait for something to fall into the slop and cut us in half!

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