Talking on a Wi-Fi network

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 5, 2009 at 8:14 am

Frontier Communications, the Connecticut-based company that’s buying a bunch of Verizon’s business for more than $8 billion, will this quarter launch a pilot program in Tennessee that will carry voice traffic over the company’s Wi-Fi network and switch to cell towers only when needed. (Search for ‘Tennessee.’) CEO Maggie Wilderotter says the savings are substantial.

We have tested this and it is a seamless handoff for the customer and we believe we can actually reduce cost for these customers in the 35% to 40% range on a monthly basis, because they’re not using minutes on the network when [they're] on our network.

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Tags: cellular phones, Frontier Telecommunications Corp., Maggie Wilderotter, mobile devices, telecommunications, Verizon Inc., Wi-Fi, wireless technology  

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