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Has Vonage stopped selling WiFi phones? If so, why?

Has Vonage stopped selling WiFi phones? If so, why?WiFi VoIP Pulled For Poor ServiceI think Vonage is trying to reduce their churn rate by evaluating customer satisfaction rates with various end-user devices, and has found that their WiFi VoIP phones are creating a terrible user experience. More on my...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, voice-over-Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Vonage Holdings Corp., phone, Wifi phone, VoWiFi

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

News to know: iPhone fiesta; Microsoft leaves zero-day unpatched

Notable headlines:Well that iPhone was quite the looker eh? Onto the coverage: For starters a Techmeme longer than your arm.Whats missing from the iPhone.The iPhone fallout: Winners and Losers.Video of iPhone announcement. Lots of pictures. Lessons learned from real-time blogging the Steve Jobs keynote. Engadget gets an "A."Apples new name.Apples...

Tags: General, iPhone, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-10

CES panelists: these are three transcending steps for VoWiFi handsets

Earlier today, panelists at a CES session entitled "New Communication Tech: From VoIP to VoWiFi and Beyond" waved in on key advances that will push lots of VoIP users from beyond their PC to mobile environments.Three advances: VoIP handsets pre-bundled with cellphone-like functionalities such as cameras, video playback and even...

Tags: General, trends, WiMAX, WiFi, CES 2007, handset, VoIP

Blog posts 2007-01-09

I'm leavin' on a jet plane- to CES, that is

Hey the clothes are packed. E-ticket printed out? Check. Laptop rarin to go-check.Got my e-ticket and am headed down to CES. Thatd be the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. If you come back here over the next couple of days you are going to see several posts,...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, VoWiFi, Consumer Electronics Show

Blog posts 2007-01-07

Will Helio features become standard on all handsets?

As Helio officially launches its cell-phone service today, it is useful to point out that some features and service characteristics have the potential to be useful for more than the younger mobile users the EarthLink-SK Telecom joint venture is targeting. About time that someone did all-in-one charging for both talk...

Tags: Helio

Blog posts 2006-05-03

Is IEEE 802.11 Ready for VoIP?

This paper empirically explores voice communication over IEEE 802.11 networks VoWiFi. The objective is to understand the limitations of the current WiFi network for VoWiFi deployment. The experiment finds two major problems of VoWiFi: unstable and excessively long handoffs and unpredictable occurrence of bursts. This paper also discusses several other...

Tags: Paper, IEEE 802.11, VoIP, Network, VoWiFi, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2006-04-17

Live from CTIA: QoS, WMM PowerSave necessary for VoWiFi consumer acceptance

I'm here in Las Vegas, blogging live from the CTIA-Wireless Association show.The first panel, entitled "Voice Over Wi-Fi" Putting the Puzzle Together," is examining interoperability issues between voice and Wi-Fi platforms, networks and applications.The overriding expectation that comes out of this panel is that Voice over WiFi is in the...

Tags: Wi-Fi, VoWiFi

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Can't wait to try out this VoWiFi analyzer

Several months ago, I used WildPackets EtherPeek to analyze some VoIP packets I was sending out and receiving.Now, the network analysis solutions provider has released AiroPeek VX, a Voice over Wireless VoWiFi analyzer.The tool evaluates packet delay vaiations, jitter, and packet loss, crunching the numbers to derive predictive diagnostics for...

Tags: AiroPeek VX, VoWiFi

Blog posts 2005-08-22

Voice Over Wi-Fi

In the last few years, the demand for wireless access to networks and the Internet has skyrocketed. This technology is called Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi). Now Wi-Fi extends to voice - known as Voice over Wi-Fi VoWiFi. This new technology allows people to communicate wirelessly by voice over enterprise networks and...

Tags: Voice, Symbol Technologies Inc., voice-over-Wi-Fi, PDAs, Internet, Wireless LANs, Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Handhelds, Hardware

White papers 2005-02-01

Will You Vote For VoWiFi?

MSNBC.com has an interesting and helpful article today about VoIP over WiFi VoWiFi, a technologywhich enables calls from wireless Internet phones to a computer or any other phone.The piece is correct in its assertion that because the handsets tend to be large and bulky, VoWiFi is currently experiencing most of...

Tags: VoWiFi

Blog posts 2004-11-22