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 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'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 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 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 on the verge of launching Bluephone 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]
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 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 all-in-one phone to debut next year
News Project Bluephone marks BT's fight-back against the threat posed to its revenues by the growth of the mobile industry, as voice minutes -- BT's traditional business -- are increasingly being lost from landlines to mobiles.
[November 1, 2004, 16:04]
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]
