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Technology Stocks : RoamAD - 802.11b Cellular Networks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (122)	8/5/2003 3:38:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 246

Dual mode phones - WiFi/Cellular. news.com.com Good news for WiFi. That'll make a network very attractive as people will save a fortune on extorquerationate cellphone minute prices. WiFi minutes would be cheap compared with absurdly high New Zealand cellphone prices. telecom.co.nz NZ$1 a minute and more. US60c a minute. People would talk over the RoamAD network when downtown, in their apartments, shopping, or at work. Then, when roaming into the suburban hinterlands or to beaches, roam onto the high-priced services from Vodafone [GSM] or Telecom [CDMA 1xRTT]. Telecom probably wouldn't allow dual-mode phones to connect to their network, so everyone would have to buy a GSM/WiFi phone and use Vodafone [it's easy to get a new SIM and connect to GSM, or just use an existing SIM in the new phone]. When Telecom sees enough WiFi/GSM phones leaving Telecom's CDMA network, they'd probably try to rescue the situation. Telecom had the cellphone market to themselves and blew it [Vodafone is doing much better than Telecom now]. Telecom would probably goof up this opportunity too. They should be starting the WiFi network, not resisting it. Oh well, that's corporate-think for you. <August 5, 2003, 11:41 AM PT Motorola and NEC America are co-developing a voice over Internet Protocol office telephone that roams from Wi-Fi onto cell phone networks, the companies announced Tuesday. When used inside an office, the phones tap into a Wi-Fi wireless network to make calls that travel, in part, over the Web rather than over a telephone network. Outside the Wi-Fi network's 300-foot range, the handsets switch calls automatically to a cellular network, which offers same data features and voice calling, but at much slower speeds. The hybrid phones and supporting gear will debut late next year, according to handset maker Motorola and communications gear provider NEC. That's at about the same time Motorola, Avaya and Proxim are scheduled to introduce a similar product. These devices bring together three technologies that businesses are beginning to adopt, despite a slowdown in corporate spending. Voice over IP (VoIP) has gained fans for its merging of telephone and computer systems. It lets users place telephone calls through the Internet, avoiding a telephone company's local and long-distance networks. Wi-Fi wireless is garnering corporate support, while cell phones have become a staple for business professionals. The effect of combining all three is to find a new way to "extend a corporate computer system beyond the office," said Bo Pyskir, senior direct of business development at Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola. ... continued... > Mqurice PS: Anyway Peter, what the heck is CCX? I asked Google and It didn't tell me. Cables and connectors? ccxcorp.com