Finnish firm plans mobile VoIP on every handset

A tiny Finnish company is planning to spread mobile VoIP to all handsets, even old, near-clapped-out bricks from the mists of history when no-one had heard of VoIP, the internet or Lindsay Lohan.

While the world may have been a better place without the latter, a return to a time without cheap communications worldwide over the internet is becoming unthinkable for many businesses and personal users.

But Concilio is setting out to try to make it even better through their Mobile Gateway Suite which will allow users of GSM-based mobiles to connect to VoIP providers.

The firm aims to link old GSM networks with more up-to-date radio access networks and even Wi-Fi, which will essentially mean all phone models ranging from ancient models to 3G phones will be able to access the internet and so connect to VoIP services.

Mobile VoIP has previously been restricted to individual handset models or required sometimes inelegant workarounds to avoid the censorship of mobile networks.

However, by connecting existing infrastructures, Concilio promises to bring "VoIP to every mobile handset... today".

Posted on: 2007-08-01, in: General VoIP

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