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Via: The guardian
A phone that is both mobile and uses cheaper landline services at home is on the way, reports Peter Judge for The Guardian.
BT has a converged phone on the way, under the name "project Bluephone".
For more than a year, the company has been testing a mobile that becomes a cordless when you walk in the door. But the industry has begun to wonder if Bluephone will ever see the light of day.
"It will definitely be launched this spring," says Ryan Jarvis, chief of mobile products and partnerships at BT. He says the delays have allowed BT to move with technology changes.
It seems the first BT product will be an ordinary mobile phone combined with a cordless base station. The base station needs an internet connection, so you will have to have broadband to use it.
Outside the house or office, the phone uses the GSM system - BT no longer owns a mobile network, but has an agreement with Vodafone. Inside the house, the phone will send calls via the base station, which will send them over BT's broadband network.
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Posted: 2005-01-27 20:41
