Internet telephony over mobile phones took centre stage at the 3GSM World Congress mobile phone conference held in Barcelona last week with two announcements that signaled that mobile phone industry is waking up to the potentially disruptive technology coming their way.



On Monday Nokia chief executive, Jorma Ollila said; ‘Internet voice is going mobile’, as the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets unveiled its first mass- market model capable of supporting voice-over-internet protocol. VoIP is the emerging technology that offers cheap calls to users by routing them over the internet, instead of traditional phone networks.



Nokia unveiled its Nokia 6136 which is a dual mode phone that works on GSM networks and can also connect to small wireless networks known as Wi-Fi On the other hand Motorola has been working on similar handsets and companies like Compaq and HP have been working on pocket devices that would support both VoIP and Wi-Fi. Skype has already entered into an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa’s mobile last week. Is VoIP going to dominate the future? Let’s see!!



via [FT]