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Ericsson Announces personal-sized cellular base station

I have seen a few of these home docking stations previously, but according to Information Week Ericsson has launched a personal cellular base station that allows users to “dock” their cellular phone when the arrive home allowing for the ability to use their cellular data plan to surf the web and make plain old voip calls.

Called the Femto Cell Solution, the cellular base station is a cellular access point that also acts like a Wi-Fi router in the home.

Potential WiFi VoIP Killer?

Even though VoIP hardware is boring, hardware like this could pose a real threat to Mobile VoIP ambitions. Why? Cellular providers already have a huge install base. With increasing cellular data speeds and a lack of innovation by plain old VoIP service providers, why would a user want to move over to WiFi, when they can get VoIP over cellular, cellular calls, and internet access? Maybe VoIP hardware isn’t exciting, but this device should certainly wake some people up.