“Japan is readying a new network for cellphones that will allow people to connect to the Internet to talk over the phone more cheaply and transmit data more quickly,”USAToday reports.”The government plans to introduce mobile Voice over Internet telephony by 2007, officials said Thursday.The mobile service under consideration at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will allow people to use Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, phone service, on cellphones — similar to what’s now available on fixed lines.The mobile VoIP services now more common allow people merely to connect their cellphones to the Net at “hot spots” using Wi-Fi wireless access”.
VoIP for cellphones
- October 14th, 2005
