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VoIP And The Mobile Phone

September 3, 2010

The humble mobile phone has been a big part of our everyday-lives for over ffiteen years now, I look back with a warm nostalgic feeling at my first Ericsson, which in all honesty was mainly used for playing snake, and compare it to the slick, shiny, tabular smart-phones of 2010.

It is almost laughable to think that we used to covet chunky handfuls of cheap plastic with clumsy aerials, soft plastic buttons and black amd green LCD displays. Looking back, I didn’t even really know why I owned a cell phone, it was just the ‘done thing’, fast forward ten years and a mobile phone is THE essential ‘can’t-be-without-it’ lifestyle tool, not just used for making calls, more a device for negotiating the digital landscape.

Of course the hardware has come on leaps and bounds, for a long time the handset market was a fairly level playing field with a number of key mobile brands fighting it out, today the iPhone has monopolized the smart phone market, anyone who’s anyone in the I.T ‘it’ crowd owns one. In terms of software, that is, the cellular data networks on which mobiles operate, much remains unchanged. Service providers have come and gone in various guises and the ‘top up’ payment method is dying a slow death but the bare bones mechanisms of the networks remain.

This may all be about to change in the future however. With IP Phone networks slowly filtering into homes and Business Telephone Systems, it is only a matter of time before mobiles follow suit. The first signs of this seachange in waiting is the dawn of Skype applications on Smartphones, this allows the user to bypass their service provider and make free calls to certain numbers. Of course the phone will be unusable unless signed up to a usage plan that is billed monthly. This begs the question then, will a manufacturer release a Skype or VoIP Phone in mobile form?

Such a phone would only be operable nationwide once the UK had blanket Wi-Fi overage which is clearly some way off. Nevertheless it is still something for major network operators need to think about, will they adapt or simply branch out into separate markets in order to survive?

We have already seen diversification from Orange in the form of orange broadband, and O2 in a variety of non-telephony related ventures, is this in preparation for the VoIP revolutiopn? VoIP looks set to follow in the steps on digital television, and eventually, broadband internet access, it will at some point, be available across the UK and form yet another facet of our digital lives.

 

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