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FierceWiFi February 15, 2006
- Nokia's move to accelerate shift to IP telephony
- Folsom to launch city-wide WiMax "warm zone"
- Metric: WiFi phone market continues to grow
- Alcatel shows mobile WiMax base station
- Intel-GSMA: "To make every notebook SIM ready"
- SPOTLIGHT: Swooping to conquer
- ALSO NOTED: New use for VoWiFi; SIPquest introduced Mobile Console; and much more...
Nokia's move to accelerate shift to IP telephony
You can hear the footsteps of an elephant, and the elephants are heading toward IP telephony. Nokia earlier this week introduced the Nokia 6136 phone, integrating UMA technology, allowing for seamless handover of voice and data connections between GSM cellular and WLAN networks. An operator adding the Nokia 6136 to its offerings will be able to offer customers voice and data services over WLANs.
The important news here is that Nokia, the largest maker of mobile handsets, is …
Folsom to launch city-wide WiMax "warm zone"
Folsom, California, a city of about 62,000 residents, may become the first city in the United States to provide city-wide wireless Internet access using WiMax. A feasibility study commissioned by the city says the city could launch WiMax-based system by fall 2007. Rather than use hundreds of WiFi APs to turn the city into a hot zone, Folsom will use a single base station to create a WiMax "warm zone" allowing free Internet access within the zone. "In terms of municipal wireless, it's …
Metric: WiFi phone market continues to grow
The worldwide WiFi phone market jumped 76 percent between 2004 and 2005 to $102.5 million. It is projected to more than double in 2006 as enterprises steadily, if slowly, continue to deploy VoWLAN, according to Infonetics Research's latest report. Healthy VoWLAN growth is projected through 2009, when WiFi phone revenue will reach nearly $1.9 billion. VoWLAN is making its initial presence in the enterprise, but will eventually become popular with consumers too, and has potential for …
Alcatel shows mobile WiMax base station
Alcatel is using the 3GSM World Congress 2006 to establish itself as an early mobile WiMax solution leader. The company unveiled its Evolium WiMax base station, based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard (formerly known as 802.16e, but the name was changed after the December 2005 draft approval). The base station will be available for commercial network deployments starting mid-2006.
Alcatel's Evolium supports fixed, nomadic, and mobile usage. The company makes the case that, in the …
Intel-GSMA: "To make every notebook SIM ready"
The last piece of news from Barcelona also has to do with convergence: Intel said it launched an initiative to facilitate the adoption of the GSM family of technologies in laptop computers. Such a move will allow users to connect and seamlessly roam across global mobile networks. The GSMA and Intel will collaborate on developing guidelines for integrating 3G modems and SIM cards into laptop computers, enabling automatic connection to both 3GSM networks and WiFi networks around the …
SPOTLIGHT: Swooping to conquer
Mike Matthews, head of product marketing at communications vendor Aculab, says that a new entrant with the right strategic vision and plan may well swoop into and dominate the U.S. VoIP industry during the next five years. This vendor may or may not be based in the U.S., and it may not have yet even been formed. Matthews spoke at an industry panel at the recent Internet Telephony Conference in Florida. "I would suggest we are going to see a player, who many of us will not know the …
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