XG Promises WiMax VOIP
March 29th, 2006 - Posted in VoIPG Technology®, LLC today announced its first consumer product will be a wireless VOIP handset Xthat will be available by the end of 2006. The phones will work on low-cost, easily deployed xMax® communications networks developed by the xG Technology engineering team.
The chip-based xMax technology is the lowest cost method yet developed for deploying competitive wireless services. xMax systems accomplish this by significantly increasing the range of transmissions, but at much lower power levels. xG Technology estimates that the cost of deployment will be 25 times less than a traditional wireless phone system. In other words, small companies, institutions, and communities can deploy wireless VOIP networks for thousands rather than millions of dollars.
In order to make the xMax phones more attractive to consumers, the handsets will be dual-mode wireless. They will be equipped with WiFi chips so that users will be able to roam to areas not initially covered by the xMax networks. The handsets will also have Ethernet jacks that will let users plug into available data networks for fixed line VOIP calling.
In addition to delivering wireless VOIP handsets and base stations by the end of 2006, xG will be launching xMax enterprise-grade solutions for select applications by the beginning of the third quarter of this year.