Future Mobile Phones: "Would you like to connect using Wi-Fi or Digital?"

Anyone with any sense will tell you VoIP is the future of land line telephones, but it won't stop there. Companies like Vonage and Skype are putting the pressure on telephone and cable companies to offer a technology they have had for years. Want the proof? See the law suit filed against Vonage by Verizon for VoIP patent infringement. They've had the technology, they just knew they couldn't charge as much for it as they do for conventional, land line, telephone service.

It actually doesn't make a lot of sense for them to not have implemented the technology sooner, but they waited and now they are playing catch up to start ups. Not only are they competing with start ups, now they have to compete against cable television and soon, possibly, satellite television companies as well. A little greed beat them at their own business. If telcos hold the phone too long, they may miss out on one of the most beneficial customer services to hit the public, since the introduction of the Internet.

I'm not talking about VoIP replacing the land line, I'm speaking of the end to the modern day Cellular Phone. Think about our current situation for a moment. We have a declining number of mobile phone companies over charging and cheating their customers every day. With a Goliath like AT&T, once again, becoming the telco monopoly it was of the past, it's only a matter of time before a major price war breaks out between the five remaining larger mobile phone carriers, Verizon, Sprint, ALLTEL, T-Mobile, and AT&T. That should distract them for a while.

Meanwhile, cities and ISP corporations are setting up huge WiFi networks all across the U.S. Some telcos are pushing Wi-Fi as well. In a few years time, much of the nation will be connected by a huge Wi-Fi network. The only places you won't be able to connect to the Internet on your iPhone via Wi-Fi will mostly consist of the places you wouldn't have a digital signal on that phone today. With a network like that, why would we even need a cellular phone?

Mark my words, in the not so distant future, Wi-Fi amplifiers will be on your car, maybe even in your house, and VoIP will be on your mobile phone.