"BT Group is planning to launch a mobile phone next year that will allow users to make cheap calls over the internet at thousands of global locations, from airports and stations or hotels and caf&ecaute;s," reports today's Financial Times.
"The UK's dominant telecommunications operator is hoping to sell mobile handsets incorporating wi-fi, the wireless internet technology, that will enable its customers to acces the internet when they enter one of thousands of global 'hotspots'."
"Under BT's plans, when mobile phone users are at work or at home, their calls will be migrated over BT's fixed line network using wi-fi connections."
This is a fascinating move from a company currently looking to invest billions of pounds in its hi-tech "21st Century Network"... and the first real signal that the future battleground for mobile communications will be seamless wireless mobility.
