Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
Getting a cell phone that works indoors.
Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 9, 2007
If you would like to learn about a cell phone that promises to work reliably indoors, as well as outside, this interview is for you.T-Mobile is going to start marketing cell phones that will use WiFi networks to make phone calls when you are located in a WiFi area. The best example might be the WiFi in your own home if you have such a network. But, you will also be able to use other WiFi hot spots, perhaps including Starbucks.From my viewpoint this is significant because it holds promise to give me a cell phone that will work inside my house. Right now if someone phones me on my cell phone while I am in the house, the signal strength is so poor that the call normally gets dropped.
I don’t like the requirement to pay an additional $20 a month for the WiFi augmentation, but our guest today says many people will pay it because it will circumvent the need for an ordinary landline telephone thereby providing an offsetting savings.
Our guest today Tom Evslin who is a successful computer industry CEO. He sold one company to Microsoft and took another pubic. His latest effort is the publication of his novel, hackoff.com. Tom comments on things digital at this blog, Fractals of Change.
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Tags: cell phone, Fractals of Change, hackoff.com, hot spots, Starbucks, T Mobile, Tom Evslin, WiFi
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