Users traded availability and reliability for mobility and ubiquity when they fell in love with cellular. Looks like they might not have to trade in quality and audibility when moving to VoIP according to Stuart Henshall:
What’s more this user has learned that Wi-FI Skyping from HotSpots is better than a Mobile phone when available. Thus the paradigm that threatens the landline system may have more impact on mobility than current projections suggest. Some of you may have seen the recent releases of mobile phones like the Nokia Communicator 9500 that provides the traditional cellphone features along with Wi-FI. So now consider the user experience. When they are in a hotspot sound quality goes way up. When they get home their cellphone automatically becomes the home phone and the cellphone and the quality is way up. It’s just possible that the mobile providers are entering a sound spiral as well.
Om Malik recently found that VoIP on today’s cellular data was quite good enough thank you.
Hmm, better and cheaper. Not a hard sell, methinks.
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