07 February 2007

New inexpensive rollouts and tests of high-speed wireless services indicate that VoIP on cell phones is coming, but VoIP pacesetter Skype says the price still is too high.

Is the mobile phone world ready for VoIP?

New inexpensive rollouts and tests of high-speed wireless services indicate that VoIP on cell phones is coming, but VoIP pacesetter Skype says the price still is too high.

Joe Nordgaard, managing director of telecom consultancy Spectral Advantage, points to a recent rollout of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev A in the Czech Republic and other deployments of Rev A as evidence that wireless technology is close to being able to adequately handle Voice over Internet Protocol technology, which needs broadband connections to operate efficiently.