Does The Future Belong To Mobile VoIP?

Mobile VoIP is also known as VoWiFi (or Voice over Wireless Fidelity). It is a combination of wireless VoIP networks and VoWiFi enabled phones. This also includes other wireless devices such as laptops, PDAs and mobile phones. By using an Internet connection at various hotspots, you are able to use mobile VoIP. The mobile operates on radio signals and when you're in the vicinity of the network's access points, it will pick up the signal, access the Internet and log on.

However, mobile VoIP still has a long way to go as it lacks of overall security with many wireless networks. In fact, when someone's using mobile VoIP, they can easily jump on another Internet network connection by simply visiting another Internet hotspot. Since hotspots only has a length of 90 meters before losing connection, many users prefer using their cell phones than mobile VoIP.

As with the future of all VoIP products and services, the FCC and US government is racing to provide rules and regulations. It truly is a technology that is on the cutting edge of innovation. In the past, all of the nation’s telephony needs were Circuit Switched and based on the PSTN network.

Today however, VoIP is rewriting the rules of telecommunications. And just when it seems that cellular phone services have worked out all of their issues, along comes mobile VoIP with a whole new set of problems. Besides security issues, there are other problems besetting mobile VoIP, such as weak batteries, the inability to sustain a connection outside of a hotspot or 90 meter range, and the cost of a mobile VoIP is still expensive.

Yet the idea of integrating video, digital cameras, web cams, email, web based applications, and mobile phones is exciting consumers world wide. And the onset of VoIP is even more thrilling for the potential benefits and savings.

The conception of the two technologies into one super phone is hardly a surprise. In the next few years, expect to see many new hybrid and mobile VoIP appearing on the local consumer market for sale.

As it is now, a Mobile VoIP is still very expensive than a standard cellular phone. Hopefully the price will go down as the technology advances.