New range of mobile phones

[dvtimes]

New range of mobile phones

Not sure if you have heard, but what could be a total revolution in mobile phones could change everything.

Basically BT are bringing out a phone that when at home connects to broadband for low cost calls. When you go out it turns into a mobile.

I suspect this will become popular and no doubt other firms will bring out similar phones.

This will result in much cheaper 3g phones as they will have to be cheaper to compete.

Also, just think if people have mobile connection to there net then people will be surfing the net more by there phone.

This is going to be an exciting times for mobile phones.

[-HF]

there is nothing new about this, the germans have that since years, it's called O2 Genion there and is used by some 3 million customers.
AFAIK they even have a huge home zone, where you use the landline, around 500m radius. so even popping over to the next convenience store is most likely still a home zone.

i found it rather surprising no other country seemed to have picked up the idea, but then they couldn't ask for two basic fees, could they. funnily enough Vodafone started a similar service as O2 Genion in Germany on Monday. i guess BT will see it as one of the last chances not to become totally irrelevant on the mobile market (i do not know a single UK person with a BT mobile)

[Geezer]

I have been saying for a few years that it would be nice to have your landline and when you go out it becomes a mobile. So you have the same number wherever you are in the country. I suppose it comes down to prices, although i'm sure they could just switch over once tou get a certain distance from the base unit and you then pay mobile rates.

[Geezer]

(i do not know a single UK person with a BT mobile)

I had a BT mobile a few years back and it cost me £100, the beauty of it was it topped up with £10 every time you switched it off and on again.

When they first started "Chipping" these phones you could phone anywhere in the world. They managed to stop that but it was months and months before they stopped it altogether.

Someone must have got a fucking huge wrist slap for messing that one up, BT must have lost a fortune.

[-HF]

eBay was full of those chipped phones then, i recall.

[a1ka1ine]

im sure this bt service has been out for at least a couple years? i dont think it has been that popular, but im all for competition and driving down costs of mobiles :)