NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON CONVERGENCE 11/10/04 Today's focus: BT phone uses different technology in different places
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Set for launch next year, BT has codenamed the service "Project Bluephone" - the name inspired by the Bluetooth wireless technology it uses. According to a statement by BT's John Lee, "Bluephone is a BT-developed product and is the first in the world that's being done this way. It means you can use a mobile phone when in Bluephone-enabled sites - that could be in homes, offices or public places - and you make your call via your mobile phone over the fixed network rather than mobile network. This gives improved voice quality and improved coverage therefore very good reception over a low-cost, fixed network. You'll still get your mobile voice and data - SMS messages and voice mail - over the fixed network." To access the service, a user needs to be within range of a Bluephone-enabled site at home, in the office or at a public site to have the call go across the PSTN. When out of range, the handset will act as a standard mobile phone and send and receive calls over a GSM network. BT is working with Alcatel, Ericsson and Motorola to develop the phones and other network elements. The service is based on Unlicensed Mobile Access standards. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Operators talk fixed-mobile convergence IDG News Service, 06/08/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0608operatalk.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larry Hettick an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in voice and data. 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