Agreed.... Convergence, or unified communications, will be the answer. Our Internet services will be the backbone for the future where people carry a unified device that provides both cellular and IP telephony. These hybrids already exist and the use of femtocells will accelerate their adoption.
This puts the WISP clearly in the path of reselling cellular service that gives the user access to a reliable nationwide network when on the road as well as reliable indoor service at their home and office through our broadband offerings. While young mobile singles and couples may survive on cellular only, it becomes a whole different story for families, businesses and farms. They can't run the farm if pop takes the cell phone with him to town. Need to have broadband to access all the goodies from the USDA and other farming sources and VoIP is a natural, providing a dedicated phone with great features and low cost. Best of all they can now use their cell phones as extensions of the home or office phone. Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown - 3 Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:30 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] VoIP deployments? Businesses cannot run on cell phones. Nor can fax machines. Voip is cheaper than cell service. The quality is better. People like their old numbers and don't want to port them to cell. Voip does not run out of batteries or fade in and out if you go to the basement. Voip doesn't have the arguable threat of causing you brain cancer. Real telephones are more comfortable to use. Lots of reasons. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:49 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] VoIP deployments? > We're just getting started with it. We're going mostly with (keeping > another company or two in mind if things don't work out for us) > Netsapians. > So far they've been good to work with and they have a product that I think > I > can sell. > > I still think, in the end, voip will be about as big as muni wifi. That > is > to say, MOST people will go cell phone for voice. Not voip in any form > from > any company. Why do most of us need multiple personal phone lines???? > > Businesses will likely be different. But I'm not sure that the price wars > are over. Doesn't look like there's gonna be much money in MOST services > on > the internet. The money for those on this list will continue to be > transport. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John McDowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Motorola Canopy User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General > List" > <wireless@wispa.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:59 PM > Subject: [WISPA] VoIP deployments? > > >> Anyone care to give some pithy comments on white label voip product >> launches? >> >> Who did you choose? How many customers do you have? How are you billing? >> >> -- >> John M. 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