Windows Phone Thoughts: Clinton Fitch: "Mobility and Voice over IP"

"It is not a too-well-kept secret that my "day job" is that of a senior engineer, selling and designing Voice over IP networks, primarily in the Call Center arena. The growth of my company's business over the past year has been phenomenal, partly due to our own processes, applications and designs and partly due to the ever increasing demand for VoIP technology. Without going too much into a sales mode here, VoIP is faster, cheaper and far more flexible than traditional telephony. There have been countless examples, especially around hurricane Katrina here in the US, that also prove that VoIP is the best solution for disaster recovery scenarios...How then do mobile devices take advantage of what is clearly a growing and important market?"

Clinton Fitch writes an interesting article on the future of VoIP, especially in relation with Pocket PCs. He also relates this to the information he learned at Mobius on Microsoft's integration of VoIP support in upcoming versions of Windows Mobile. As applications like Skype demonstrate, this is a potentially huge upcoming field, and as such there's a lot of exciting possibilities. Let's just hope the wireless carriers don't neuter any VoIP plans for upcoming connected mobile devices. :roll: