Bluephone continues despite standards group's demise
News The loss of UMA, reported by Wi-Fi news Web site Unstrung, is unlikely to change BT's plans for Bluephone, the only known UMA-based service, whose launch is due "this Spring". Bluephone's main aim is to gain experience for BT, before "real...
[May 23, 2005, 13:10]
BT on the verge of launching Bluephone
News After nearly two years of expectation and rumour, BT is ready to launch Bluephone, its converged mobile handset. While Bluephone is likely to experience only limited success in terms of adoption, its real importance lies in its potential to...
[June 9, 2005, 15:45]
BT's Bluephone must be convergence without the con
Leader It's been a long time coming, but BT is finally gearing up to launch its Bluephone system. Leaving such quibbles aside, Bluephone is an experiment in convergence that deserves to be tried. So far, the mobile networks not connected with Bluephone...
[April 6, 2005, 14:20]
BT and Vodafone converge on Bluephone
News One such initiative has been dubbed Project Bluephone. Analyst house Ovum called the deal and Project Bluephone "huge news for BT's future revenues, partners and customers", as it is an attempt to stem declines in fixed-line sales.
[May 18, 2004, 15:05]
BT to trial voice-over-Wi-Fi for Bluephone 2
News BT is already developing a device called the Bluephone, which it has said will work as a domestic cordless phone over Bluetooth and also as a GSM mobile phone. Its work with Tatara is understood to centre on the development of a device - dubbed...
[March 15, 2005, 14:30]
BT's Bluephone must be convergence without the con
Talkback tbh i think the fact that other mobile operators arent following this line has nothing to do with the possibility BT may be keeping price of entry unreasonably high but more to do with market desire for the device/concept.a home phone is a home...
[April 7, 2005, 12:29]
Convergence: One handset is better than two
News The imminent launch of BT’s Project Bluephone represents the first step in a move towards converged fixed and mobile networks and is meant to act as a stepping stone towards realising the telco's 21st Century Network strategy.
[May 17, 2005, 15:25]
BT launches "watershed" fixed and mobile handset
News Fusion, previously known as Project Bluephone, is aimed initially at the consumer market and is based around a cordless Motorola handset that acts as a normal cellular phone outside of the home, but inside routes calls through a hub onto a BT...
[June 15, 2005, 12:05]
BT's converged phone ready for the limelight
News Project Bluephone is BT's attempt to create a mobile handset that will work as a cordless phone over Bluetooth at home but will also function as GSM mobile phone on the move. In a discussion with UK journalists, Verwaayen said that the Bluephone...
[April 5, 2005, 17:25]
BT Fusion: watershed or washout?
News BT on the verge of launching Bluephone Project Bluephone could drive the take-up of voice-over-IP in the mobile space, unless billing issues scupper it Bluephone continues despite standards group's demise
[June 15, 2005, 15:50]
Telecoms convergence brings revolution
News BT's Project Bluephone was cited by Ransom as an example of increasing fixed and mobile integration. The Bluephone, due to be officially available late this year, will support both Bluetooth and GSM. The next major advances in telecoms will come...
[February 14, 2005, 13:25]
O2 sorts out high-speed wireless
News One thing that definitely doesn't work for the company is Bluephone -- a handset that will make mobile, landline and VoIP calls. We tried Bluephone in a number of homes," Williams said. Mobile operator mmO2 has been sorting out where it will be...
[January 28, 2005, 8:20]
BT's all-in-one phone to debut next year
News The "Bluephone" will be available from late 2005 or early 2006, a BT spokesman said. Details of the "Bluephone" were first revealed in May this year. Project Bluephone marks BT's fight-back against the threat posed to its revenues by the growth of...
[November 1, 2004, 16:04]
BT to use Bluetooth to cut mobile costs
Talkback i work for BT Local Business and have been chosen to trial the bluephone for business use.i will be testing this product to the max, if its a good product/solution BT will take over the world. Free text messages over landlines is not an issue.
[May 25, 2005, 10:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To the City, where BT is launching Bluephone - or, as we must learn to call it, BT Fusion. Wednesday 15/06/2005 This is a mobile phone that switches to using your broadband when you're at home. As we sit in the plush lecture theatre in BT HQ - the...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
BT planning Fusion phone for business
News The initiative, which is being run as a separate project to the original Bluephone aka Fusion programme, will be based around WiFi/SIP dual mode handsets that can hand calls over across multiple access points scattered throughout the organisation.
[June 16, 2005, 17:25]
BT's visions lack focus
Leader Take Bluephone. Futurology is a curious profession that combines science fiction, engineering, PR and astrology. Ian Pearson, polisher of BT's crystal ball, has certainly got the PR and sci-fi sides sorted out.
[May 24, 2005, 13:40]
BT to offer cheaper Wi-Fi to its mobile users
News Such a device would be a second-generation Bluephone -- BT's converged mobile device that is due to launch next year. BT is about to give its mobile customers discounted access to its Wi-Fi network. Steve Andrews, BT Group chief of mobility and...
[November 19, 2004, 16:05]
VoIP: Not just about free calls
News BT is developing a converged mobile device called the Bluephone, which it hopes will eventually handle calls over Wi-Fi, GSM and Bluetooth. There is a transatlantic split over attitudes to wireless VoIP services, according to one Dublin-based VoIP...
[April 22, 2005, 11:45]
