The latest trend in VOIP today is Skype, a name which has now become a synonym for Internet telephony. For those who haven’t heard about Skype yet we would like to give a brief intro of this next generation telephony which is making headlines everyday. Skype is a wireless calling providing software which lets you call anywhere in the world for free and sometime through credit points. Skype telephony is now...

The market for WiFi-enabled Voice-over-Internet Protocol phones reached US$ 102 million in revenues in 2005, and is expected to double this year to more than US$ 200 million. This is according to a report by technology-oriented research firm Infonetics. The report has likewise provides a detailed breakdown across the types of mobile handsets used. In 2005, about two-thirds of revenue was from single-mode WiFi...

VoWiFi phones are a dime a dozen lately, and you can probably purchase one for as cheap as an ordinary cordless phone. But if you already have a personal digital assistant (PDA) that supports WiFi, then you can probably use your existing gadgetry to place and receive Voice-over-Internet Protocol calls through a Wireless network. For instance, most mid-range and high-end HP iPaq Pocket PCs have built-in WiFi...

Is VoWiFi the future of wireless telephony? Well, in a way, yes, but not exactly the sole technology that will bring about the next-generation mobile technology. Existing telecom companies are still likely to have a strong position in the market, being the incumbent, and having the broadband infrastructure already in place. As we pondered on before, WiFi, indeed, has an edge over other technologies in the high-bandwidth...