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From: carreraspyder	9/20/2004 8:17:48 PM
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NTOP WLAN portable phone…. Is there an Internet-based WLAN Portable Phone in your Future? americasnetwork.com Sep 20, 2004 By: Al Senia America's Network Enews Quite possibly, if you spend your time on a college campus, you’re a technological savvy international traveler or you just spend a lot of time in a somewhat insulated, hot-wired environment. Wireless LAN platforms emerged from the shadows this week when VoIP pioneer Vonage and Texas Instruments jointly announced at the Broadband World Forum in Italy that they are working on an integrated platform to develop a high-performance wireless LAN IP phone. The device would combine VoIP and WLAN software that would bring WLAN IP phones to market for residential and enterprise users. “Coupling broadband telephony with mobility presents tremendous cost savings, flexibility and new feature opportunities for consumer using residential VoIP,” Vonage Chairman Jeff Citron said in a statement. Citron figures business travelers whose phones don’t work in overseas markets - or who get him with huge roaming charges - also would be natural customers for such technology. It’s certainly a neat concept: You take your portable WLAN phone, access an available hotspot and start using the Internet to make (toll-free0 VoIP calls anywhere you please. In fact, such devices already are on the market. As an example, Net2Phone executives were showing off functioning WLAN VoIP phones at the VON show last spring in northern California. They saw the appeal of the technology in niche markets like college students (who could communicate with each other and their families at home when a wired campus environment) or enterprise executives (making business calls from the wired office or hotel rooms anywhere in the world). Like any new technology will a lot of promise, there likely will be a lot of user pain before this concept makes prime time. VoIP is just getting to the point where a non-techie user trusts it; adding a wireless component could frazzle a lot of users. (Getting the wireless LAN to link up the desktop and notebook computers at home is challenge enough for most of us.) Still, the fact that well known players Vonage and TI are getting together to collaborate on the technology is good news that seems likely to give the WLAN phone a needed boost. Who’ll be the first on your street to get one?

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