You mean FOMA N900iL? Yes it's been around for quite some time.
This N900iL is quite different from the one in the URL you gave. The one
in the URL is just a mobile WiFi terminal, without traditional cellular
(3G etc) capability. There has been many such WiFi terminals
(non-cellular), including Cisco 7920 which was released back in 2003.
Unlike Skype, N900iL seems to connect to any SIP server. I saw many
companies offering such SIP server during net&com2005 in Tokyo this
month. So you get two numbers, one is FOMA phone number, the other is
050 number provided by your IP phone provider (Fusion etc). I guess
theoretically with this N900iL you can set up your own SIP server and
PSTN-VoIP gateway at your office, and receive calls local to your office
anywhere in the world where there is WiFi.
BTW, YahooBB has been providing WiFi equipped modem+router since years
ago.
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:40:19 +0900 (JST)
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, nick may wrote:
>
> > Wonder whether THIS will make it to the WMAM (world's most advanced
> > market)...
> >
> > <snip>Motorola, a leading maker of mobile phones, and Skype, a leading
> > Internet telephony company, said this week at 3GSM World Congress that
> > Motorola would launch a lineup of products that are dubbed )BSkype
> > Ready)B, including cell phones and handsets.</snip>
>
> In terms of the technology being deployed, Japan has been there for some
> time. Docomo has been selling a cellphone that also does VoIP over WiFi
> for months now.
>
> But you're right, the consumer availability is not there yet. I think
> that Docomo is capable of doing it, but they're not going to until
> someone else forces them into it. I am surprised that that is not
> starting to happen, given the number of companies doing home wired VoIP
> right now.
>
> Say Yahoo Broadband started selling a router with WiFi built in (perhaps
> they already do) and something like this:
>
> http://www.nikotel.de/en/zyxel.htm
>
> Heck, I'd buy one in a flash, not to mention a wireless access point for
> my office.
>
> cjs
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