Comments on: Vonage to offer portable Wi-Fi phones

The broadband phone service provider will make available portable Wi-Fi phones later this year to help defend itself against AT&T's expansion into its market.

Commercial SIP phones?

Is there a schedule for availability of SIP phones from any of the commercial service provider like Vonage?

Jim Miller
ExelSoft Inc.
http://www.exelsoft.com

VoIP is most certainly regulated!

Why do journalist insist on continuing this lie
of the giant telecom's? VoIP travels over
regulated telecommunications media. My VoIP
phone goes through my cable modem to the CATV
line that runs into my house. I can see the
federal regulation charges that I incur each and
every month on my cable bill.

Journalists and politicians, please get it
right. What is be proposed is "double
regulation," and it is a slippery slope. Once
you double regulate VoIP you have opened the
door to regulating the web, ftp file transfers,
h.323 conferencing, and every other service
provided over the internet.

The government already gets its nickel from my
VoIP service through my cable provider.
Anything else is robbery by the government.

What's missing: combine this with cellular service

This is just the first baby step.

When Vonage and others wake up and realize that a cellular phone with embedded VoIP (wireless or not) capability is the most attractive option here, then this service will really take off.

Everyone already has cellphones. Why not combine both in one device?

See details of this idea on
http://geocities.com/karlsson/celliphone.html