My concern is Sprint would consider this a threat to their "Bread and Butter". Why buy one of their $100/mo plans for 2000 Anytime Minutes when you can get a $50/mo data plan and use an unlimited VOIP carrier. Why pay their overpriced International rates, when you can just go through a VOIP carrier.
With Verizon, I'm getting the Samsung i700 PDA phone. It runs Windows Mobile 2003, which is based off CE. I believe I found a SIP client for it. Using a wireless SD card in the SDIO slot it comes with, anytime I'm in range of a hotspot, I'll be able to go online and use the SIP client. Effectively turning my Cell phone into a wireless SIP phone when in range of a hot spot. Would be really nice when I'm in Australia. Also found an ssh client for it and a small roll out keyboard. I know I can get my laptop to go online through this phone, but I wonder if the phone can go online through my laptop. If so, anytime my laptop has internet access, such as from Ethernet, the sip client on the pda-phone would work. Thus turning it into a usb phone. Hehe. I love technology... Most of the time. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian McSpadden Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:45 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP over 1xRTT It is not always the bandwidth, you are correct. There are however times on the Sprint network that the bandwidth is reduced, or the bandwidth is zero, because it can't connect to anything because the network is so busy. WIth Sprint's CDMA 1xRTT network, voice and data share the same network, but voice is the bread and butter of the business, so it will get priority over data. This is why I'm saying, EV-DO (and later EV-DV) will do great things for VoIP over cellular networks. EV-DO (DO stands for Data Only), dedicates a high speed data network, more available bandwidth for everybody, and less latency, hence less jitter. I'm excited to see these developments, as I believe it will make VoIP more reliable over these types of networks. At the moment, there are simply too many variables to trust it. Brian On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:36:14 -0400, Deon Rodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not the bandwidth. I have Sprint and am switching to Verizon with a > week. When I go online through my Sprint phone, I get 250+ms response times. > That can not be VOIP friendly. I have clocked downloads at up to 130 kbits > per second, so the speed is ok, but the ping response times are bad. > > I've heard reports from Verizon users who get an average of 60-80 kbits per > second, so I 'feel' Sprint's network may be a little faster as their average > is higher, at least in my area. But Verizon is already doing the 2nd stage > rollout, which is nice and fast. > > But the latency issue will probably still be there, for Sprint or Verizon. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
