Today, GIPS (Global IP Solutions), a leader in IP media processing, announced it is enabling VoIP for Apple's iPhone. Using the GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile, allows application developers to quickly integrate real-time VoIP applications.
Today, GIPS (Global IP Solutions), a leader in IP media processing, announced it is enabling VoIP for Apple's iPhone. Using the GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile, allows application developers to quickly integrate real-time VoIP applications.The iPhone has an embedded codec, iLBC, that allows narrowband calls over the Internet. The GIPS engine is a way to leverage the iPhone's WiFi capabilities, which technically speaking means to bypass the AT&T carrier network. So iPhone users in WiFi hotspots can make VoIP calls.
After reading Michael Finneran's AT&T Wireless Confirms: Stiffing Customers is Still a High Priority, I can't help but wonder if help (at least a feeling) isn't on the way. Mobility is and remains, I think, the magical key to unlocking more corporate dollars and can be a tool contributing to the "greening" of telecom.
According to Apple, the demand for the new 3G iPhone has been enormous: the company stated it sold more than 1 million during the weekend the mobile phone launched, in mid-July. The double take for Apple is the applications for the iPhone, and they are selling.
Once again, Apple wins and stands to win a lot more in revenues. But realistically, how much freedom from the carrier's grasp will users gain? Then another thought--and it too is one of my old saws--what about the corporate desktop? You see, I have mine--my iPhone and MAC desktop married in a bliss of Apple wares (MobileMe) that really don't cost me much. How open is Apple to bridging the Microsoft desktops to users' iPhones?
Openness is just one guy's reality (How open is OPEN?), made by the same guy selling the concept; and removing "barriers" to telecommunications threatens revenue streams. I don't think we'll experience sell-the-phone, sell-the-apps and get FREE airtime all the time, anytime soon. But hey, the VoIP guys pitched and continue to pitch the death of long distance. Maybe it's about time they hone in on the WiFi carriers and expect the same.
