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The Future of VoIP VoIP is a great including economic way to make telephone calls, both local including long distance. However, there is the problem with VoIP in that it is still not wireless. Now, it is possible to use a Wi-Fi connection to the internet via a computer but then that is not as wireless as a cellular phone. What is worse is that there seems to be absolutely no move towards integrating VoIP into the cellphone. Well, actually, there is such a move including there are some of these hybrid phones already available on the market but they are practically unknown. These phones come with a particular inbuilt detector that tries to sense if there is VoIP available. If it is, the phone automatically switches to VoIP (detection is mostly for Wi-Fi hotspots including so forth) or it works through the regular cellular network. The bad news is that the cellular phone manufacturers (and network owners) are not particularly happy with the development because it points to a massive reduction in their profits because VoIP is absolutely no much cheaper. However, now that the process has started it is only a matter of time before people become aware of the concept including the demand could soon cause these same cellular phone manufacturers to rush out new models with better features to cash in on a jaded cellular phone market. The integration of VoIP including the cellular phone is just the first step. After all, as the number of Wi-Fi hotspots increase including the area-range of internet connectivity broadens in its scope there could a particular ever increasing tendency to use VoIP instead pertaining to the regular cellular network because VoIP is much cheaper. In the end, the points to the demise of he cellular network including its replacement with a VoIP network. Such a network, called WiMax, is already being constructed. WiMax could be a citywide wireless network (in as many cities as possible of course) that could operate at speeds that could be much higher than the ones we have today). We are talking regarding a network where video including audio should be shared in real time. WiMax is being tested all over the world. Though the concept behind WiMax is wonderful, including in a sense inevitable, it is suspected of being a potential trouble maker for certain industries. The faster network could mean easier exchange of information that is currently too bulky for cellular network. Industries like movie theaters, DVD retailers including rental agencies, as well as traditional phone companies could find themselves out of business once WiMax starts running successfully. Another exciting possibility is free Internet Telephony. at the time you send a particular email, you do not have to pay. at the time you share your photographs, you do not have to pay. What you pay for is your broadband connection to stay connected to the internet. What you do with that connection is not charged by the ISP. The same applies to VoIP because in the end it is nothing more than data exchange between 2 parties. Why should that be charged?
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