Thanks to the excellent efforts of Christian Dannemann, it took me 30 seconds to configure my [[Nokia E61i]] to make calls using our Asterisk server instead of my wireless provider.
I’ve now got the phone set up as, appropriately enough, “extension 61” on the local Asterisk PBX. This means, in practice, that it is now simply another handset here at the office. Except that “the office” stretches anywhere there is wifi. In other words, Johnny can pick up the phone in his office, dial “61” and my mobile will ring. Whether I am in the office next door or drinking absinthe with [[Olle]] in Copenhagen.
While this is technically elegant, it would also seem to signal a rather cataclysmic shift in the mobile marketplace: wifi is everywhere; once wifi-enabled phones are everywhere, is there any reason to have a SIM and be tied to expensive rates, dreadful service and poor features?
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Quite a leap forward Pete.
Quite a leap forward Pete. Reminds me of the first Craft Council web site, except I didn’t see the web site comming — mobile VoIP has been on its way for a few years now and it’s nice to see it’s finally arrived.
This is back in 2007, we are
This is back in 2007, we are in 2010, can you imagine how late we are on this. I hate Canada for that.
Do you still need convincing ?
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