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VoIP Going Wireless

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-give-me-the-hardware dept.

imashoe writes "CNet's News.com reports on the wireless future of VoIP. Similarly BonaFideReviews.com has published an interesting article that attempts to predict what the future of voice communications will be like. The two editorals seem to agree that VoIP is going mobile and in a big way."

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  1. Test It... by fiji · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you want, you can run a free VoIP quality test at http://testyourvoip.com/. So if you have wireless, or want to place a VoIP call over your Cell data link (for whatever perverse reason) you can check your quality before setting it all up if you have a web browser with Java enabled.

    -ben

  2. Wireless VoIP by Khyber · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Knowing how weather is prone to interfere with cellular communications right now, how are they going to make wireless VoIP proof against mother nature?

    And I can really imagine how much it's going to suck if lightning takes out a tower.

    Really, we don't even have widespread wifi access across the country. What's the point of doing this now when the infrastructure doesn't fully exist in all areas?

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  3. Re:oh no! by andreyw · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You actually likely talking about the same thing, although you're not aware of it. Spring uses SIP. Nextel uses iDen which also rides over TCP/IP.

    Mobile VOIP is not news. It's not even old news. More like 10 year-old news.

  4. Article misses the most important point by Timbotronic · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wireless VoIP has been around for a while already. There are plenty of people running Skype on PDA's with WiFi and GSM/GPRS for example. What we *don't* have today is handoff between networks mid call. ie. If I start a call over VoIP and WiFi, it should seemlessly switch to the cellular network when I go out of range from the hotspot. Even better, the call should go peer-peer if I'm within range of the person I'm calling. It'd also be nice to know how far away they are and in which direction, but I digress.

    Although the tech for seemless network handoff is tricky, I think the main issue to adoption is resistance from the cellular networks who stand to lose a fortune.

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  5. Re:Can You PH33R M3 Now? by Hercynium · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bah, I'll bite; I'm bored.

    When you talk 'secure' do you mean secure from someone with a radio scanner? CDMA, GSM, and all their 'descendents' have that already.

    And don't tell me that the encryption can be broken. It takes highly complex, expensive equipment to do that.

    Anyhow... I would imagine the police can simply get a warrant and tap the call at the carrier's switch. Sure, SIP could be used to support end-to-end encryption, but cell phones are roughly as secure as a land line. I dare say cellular may be *more* secure! Here's my rationale: Cellular interception (from phone to tower) requires, say a $50K scanner, complex radio equipment and software. Land-line interception takes a pocket knife, a spare phone and a couple of alligator clips.

    mmmm, FUD.

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