Mobile working Toolkit
Story: Is BT's Fusion a flop?
You Should Pay for Connection -But Who is it For/What Does it Do for The
I think the Openzone WiFi connectivity is a great development assuming the hybrid user exists and rates are not old style BT gouging and substantially cheaper than mobile.
To the other writer here - someone deployed a network to support your voice calls on WiFi. That's why you should pay. Its a service that reqired investment and costs BT to operate. Get over your Internet zealot self.
There never was and never will be a managed service deployed that is free, its either paid for by taxes as the Internet first was, or by charging the registered user.
If it was feasible I would have preferred Bluetooth connection while that is the universal wireless mobile connection - so we could use any Bluetooth mobile of our choice, maybe with a bit of downloaded Java code - rather than be stuck with particular WiFi/Fusion phones from BT's over-the-wall technology marketing department. (Why do they need a choice, we know best?)
But Bluetooth range is crap and WiFi was being deployed nationally for data - so I guess that was the driver.....
Whatever, its a minority requirement IMO, and may have application in the enterprise as your one business phone for field personnel but not for home users in the main.
People seem to either use their mobile mostly, and want a good one that does multimedia things as they tend to be younger and not houseowners, or are more established homeowners and use their fixed phone mostly, and I doubt will want to take their house phone out and about with them - what is then left for the others in the house??
MONEY: the major cost of home phones now is calls to mobiles, which Fusion doesn't really help with - does it?
Brian
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