In recent years, new ideas have spawned
to make communication easier;
Internet telephony is one of these. A huge
number of people today keep in touch
by making PC-to-PC or PC-to-phone calls.
To take communication to the next level,
technologists have designed mobile phones
that can use broadband to make calls. Of
course, you need a broadband connection to
exploit the benefits of making calls through
the Internet; also, this service has to be
supported by your service provider and the
phone manufacturer.
Motorola, in collaboration with British
Telecom, provides this service on its RAZR
V3B and V560 models, in UK. To avail this
service, the user needs to install a wireless
home hub from British Telecom. However,
calling is restrained to indoors only. This is
of course a glitch in the service, something
which Nokia plans to do away with, although
they have revealed no details about a tie-up
with any service provider. Recently Nokia
launched two handsets—the 6136 and the
N80 that are capable of broadband calling.

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