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's Bluephone must be convergence without the con
Leader So far, the mobile networks not connected with Bluephone have been very cool on the idea: Ofcom needs to satisfy itself that this is not because the price of entry is being kept artificially high, and that BT is not planning to make switching away...
[April 6, 2005, 14:20]
BT Fusion: watershed or washout?
News Project Bluephone could drive the take-up of voice-over-IP in the mobile space, unless billing issues scupper it BT's Bluephone, a device that should be able to act as a landline, mobile and VoIP phone device looks set to make its market debut next...
[June 15, 2005, 15:50]
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]
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]
BT on the verge of launching Bluephone
News The aim of Bluephone, which will be launched next Wednesday, is to provide consumers with a single cordless handset which routes calls and data packets over fixed-line BT broadband networks when they are at home, but switches seamlessly over to a...
[June 9, 2005, 15:45]
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 and Vodafone converge on Bluephone
News 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. One such initiative has been dubbed Project Bluephone.
[May 18, 2004, 15:05]
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 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. This is a simple idea - one phone that works on mobile and fixed networks - that has been around for years in one form or another. BT is fast losing voice revenue to Internet and mobile telephony, so the idea of diverting some of...
[May 24, 2005, 13:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To the City, where BT is launching Bluephone - or, as we must learn to call it, BT Fusion. As we sit in the plush lecture theatre in BT HQ - the slides still didn't work properly - there is plenty of time to note that 0800 calls are charged at...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
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. Ross Brennan, chief executive of wireless VoIP specialist Cicero Networks, said on Wednesday that in Europe...
[April 22, 2005, 11:45]
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. While this first device will just support GSM and Bluetooth, BT is also...
[April 5, 2005, 17:25]
