BW Online | February 18, 2004 | How the Wi-Fi Future Might Look:
"Cell phones combining Wi-Fi with the carriers' wireless technologies will come out in large numbers within the next year: Already, an alliance of No. 2 mobile-phone maker Motorola (MOT ), equipment maker Avaya (AV ), and broadband hardware maker Proxim (PROX ) is testing a dual-mode phone that can make calls both over a cellular network and, via Wi-Fi, over the Net. Every other cell-phone maker is close behind.
Even on equipment that offers Wi-Fi functionality exclusively -- such as phones customized for very specific jobs, such as those used in hospital emergency rooms -- Wi-Fi will be more integrated with information systems. Wi-Fi devices for nurses made by phone maker SpectraLink (SLNK ) already are being combined into a system that pages a nurse whenever a patient presses the 'call' button. That allows nurses more mobility, so they don't have to sit at their nursing stations to receive messages. "
"Cell phones combining Wi-Fi with the carriers' wireless technologies will come out in large numbers within the next year: Already, an alliance of No. 2 mobile-phone maker Motorola (MOT ), equipment maker Avaya (AV ), and broadband hardware maker Proxim (PROX ) is testing a dual-mode phone that can make calls both over a cellular network and, via Wi-Fi, over the Net. Every other cell-phone maker is close behind.
Even on equipment that offers Wi-Fi functionality exclusively -- such as phones customized for very specific jobs, such as those used in hospital emergency rooms -- Wi-Fi will be more integrated with information systems. Wi-Fi devices for nurses made by phone maker SpectraLink (SLNK ) already are being combined into a system that pages a nurse whenever a patient presses the 'call' button. That allows nurses more mobility, so they don't have to sit at their nursing stations to receive messages. "
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