Monday, March 13, 2006

Mobile VoIP Neds 'Higher-Speed Uplink' to be Viable

John Blau writes on InfoWorld:

Internet telephony over mobile phones is on the way but don't expect many commercial offerings until operators have made a key network technology enhancement, probably toward the end of 2007 or later in most parts of the world, according to a senior executive with Lucent Technologies Inc.

The problem with providing VOIP service over mobile handsets today is the uplink, which is too slow to support quality voice calls, according to Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere.

More here.

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