The WI-FI and VoIP

Q: So Skype will cooperate with telecom companies as well as with wireless ISPs such as Boingo and Livedoor?

A: Yes. But our cooperation with wireless ISPs will be more important than that with traditional telecom companies, because the cooperation with wireless ISPs will provide our clients with mobility and accessibility for global communications. This will continue to be one of our key strategies for future development.



When you use VoIP making a call IP to IP the call "IS" free because you use an infrastructure you are leasing from the Telecoms or whoever is the owner of the Network.
You pay a flat rate for DATA and you use it also fro VOICE.
Thence the saving.

If you want to be "mobile" you have to add to this Network the leasing of the mobile network, in this case the cell phone network which is not free and is not cheap.
Thence the need to use an alternative Network that can connect the last "mile" which in the particular case of 802.11 is just a few meters (500 in the best conditions) it is not free and can eventually come at a flat rate.

OK, you are now in the condition to do a VoIP mobile call.
But is it convenient, and most of it, is it necessary?

The convenience is in the moment you do an International call.
But this is not the usual scenario of a mobile call.
If I am from USA and I am in Europe for my holydays, I guess I could pay a flat rate for using Hot Spots and call home.
But would the normal tourist find it easy to use and so much more affordable?
I see the user in this case more a "professional" that a mass market user.

But the normal scenario is made by people who use the mobile to call home.
In my opinion, right now, it is fairly useless a dual mode cell phone and it certainly doesn't justify its price.

That is exactly why Skype hasn't come on the market with something of that kind yet and it won't in the future, unless something really new is brought to light.
But if something really new is brought on the market I very much doubt that Skype will be the one to use it first.

VoIP is a wonderful new application and will be the future, but not on the Mobile network, at least not until the moment the data line will be offered on a flat cheap rate with enough bandwidth to make it possible to use it also for VoIP.
But in this case I think the protocol will be open SIP or open H323.
We have enough of the old monopolies, we do not need a new one...

The Mobile Snatchers

The Mobile Snatchers
Wi-fi changed the way the world surfs the web. Now it's coming to a phone near you — and telecoms will never be the same

By MARK HALPER




Sunday, Sep. 04, 2005
When operations manager Spiros Stefanou learns that a flight coming into Athens International Airport is due in early, he picks up his mobile phone and alerts baggage handlers to scramble a crew quickly. Nothing unusual about that — except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050912-1101277,00.html



It is already two years my husband and me are proposing a wonderful Wi-Fi system that with the frequecy of 2.4GHz can reach up to 5Km and with 900 MHz up to 15 Km.
It can use both PSTN AND VoIP.

You'll find details in my webpages

http://www.worldonip.com/voiwirelessphone.htm

it is a wonderful system non only for Airports.
Imagine Hotels, Offices, all those cases in which people need to be mobile and do not want to spend a fortune.
An employee can be reached on his PSTN number when is at the restaurant near his office, or can do a VoIP call in the ray of respectively 3 or 12 Km.

I can assure you:it works wonderfully!

Do you know what is the main problem?

Since IT IS NOT a GSM and the WI-FI power is much less than a GSM (1000th less) the size of the phone is bigger and it doesn't look like the last GSMs...
And the stupidity of the people gives a lot of importance to the LOOK more than to the fact that first the telephone call cost is zero (in the coverage area one phone can talk to the other for free) and that it is much less dangerous for the health.

My Saturdays

If you think that good blogging is good journalism and bad blogging is talking about your cat, just ignore this post and go somewhere else...


Well, today is Saturday.
People are supposed to follow certain patterns on Saturdays.
First you should wake up later.
But that doesn't work for me.
And not because I wouldn't like it.
With a quarter of a pill I slept till 1.45 am. when a huge thunderstorm woke me up.
There was water coming from the windows and I realized suddendly that in my office in Carmagnola I had left not only the shutters, but even the windows open...
Besides having to clean the mess on the floor I also had that terrible thought and couldn't sleep.
After five drops of a disgusting sleeping-liquid and two glasses of water I went back to sleep and did it till 7, which is usually very late for a quarter of a pill...

Then you are supposed to have a special breakfast.
Mine is always the same.Because the scale tells me so.
If you eat more, then you get some more hectograms, and that is what everybody should avoid, me in first row.

Then you are supposed to enjoy your week end.
But this is something I cannot do.
And all for that damned Telecom and that bunch of idiots that do not want to understand that also the people living in a small village have the right to have a DSL to check the mail or the blog, even on Saturdays and Sundays...

So the need to take the car and go to Carmagnola (where this time I would have had to go anyway for my forgetfulness...)

Now I can finally begin to enjoy my weekend.
Mail checked, windows checked, blog checked, what could I check now, just not to get bored?

I could check my tomatoes, I could check my flowers, I could check a lot of things, but then that would almost be like working and WORKING is something you are not supposed to do on Saturdays.

I could go on the terrace and read a book.
But which one?
An interesting and almost working-like or a stupid and amusing-pretending?

Again to choose, it is almost working like.

I could also sit and just have an ice-cream, but that would last, admitting to lick it as slow as possible, just maximum ten minutes, then I would still have the problem to spend my time and one problem more: 150 calories less available on Saturdays.
That means no tea, or no tea with cookies...

Not the best idea.
I could telephone somebody, but everybody is usually so busy having good time on Saturdays..

If I only had a pet I could have the excuse of a walk, but then I would still have the pet on Mondays and Tuesdays and so on...
also this doesn't really look like the best idea.
I could for example put in order that room, a job I always postpone and save for a rainy day...
But then ON A RAINY DAY I would really have nothing else to do.

I have a better idea.
I still have a husband, it is true, HE IS BUSY, but I could make him a little bit UNBUSY, well it is SATURDAY also for him!

Per Andrea Bairati

Egregio dott. Bairati,

penso che lei capisca il tedesco:

Berlin - Die Deutsche Telekom plant den Aufbau eines neuen
Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetzes: Von spätestens 2007 an sollen den Kunden im Festnetz Datenübertragungs-Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 50 Megabit pro Sekunde (Mbit/s) zur Verfügung stehen, wie der Telekom-Vorstandsvorsitzende Kai-Uwe Ricke am Donnerstag vor Eröffnung der Internationalen Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin sagte.

Das sei 50 Mal schneller als der jetzige DSL-Einsteigeranschluss und gut acht mal schneller als der derzeit schnellste DSL-Zugang. Allein für den Aufbau dieses Glasfasernetzes würden ab sofort drei Milliarden Euro investiert. Bereits bis Mitte 2006 sollen die ersten zehn Städte und damit knapp drei Millionen Haushalte an das neue Glasfasernetz angebunden sein.



E noi stiamo ancora aspettando 256Kbits a Sanfre'...

Non solo, i suoi megagalattici progetti di WIMAX sono obsoleti ancor prima di iniziare, forse e' meglio risparmiare il Pubblico Denaro e impiegarlo ad esempio in una nuova DSL a 50 Mega, come in Germania...

Iniziamo a copiare i Cinesi:
quelli prima di far qualcosa copiano chi l'ha fatto prima di loro e cosi' partono dal punto giusto...e raggiungono il traguardo giusto...

Fulvia Patrizia Demaria Broghammer

Terrorism

Terrorism is the living testimony of the fallacy that the fight against terrorism is the only solution.

I have a friendly attitude towards terrorism.

What I mainly dislike, is the thought of so many bombs wasted for killing people who nothing can and nothing know, when it would be enough one thousanth of them put in the right place for the right people.

Many will be horrified.

"Incivility" they will call my attitude.

But I think incivility is in the system that brings people to desperation.

To blow themselves up, because that is the only way they can shout : I DO NOT AGREE !

I have a friendly attitude towards the people who can't pay their bills, because they lost their jobs.

Towards the people who were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I am a damn materialist.

I have an unfriendly attitude towards the so called "idealists".

Especially the ones who made a lot of money.

I have an unfriendly attitude towards people like Bush or Blair who say the most important thing in life is the family.

And, as a proof, destroy the others' family.

I have an unfriendly attitude towards the people who say they believe in justice and then use justice to prevail on the others.

I have an unfriendly attitude towards the people who say one thing when they think another one.

If those are the "idealists", well, I am happy and proud NOT to be one of them.