Ah, now things are getting interesting. It’s true, with the idea of VoIP mobile phones coming to Japan, chances are that we will see them in the West sooner than we think.

Japan is readying a new network for cell phones that will allow people to connect to the Internet to talk over the phone more cheaply and transmit data more quickly.

The government plans to introduce mobile Voice over Internet telephony by 2007, officials said Thursday.

The mobile service under consideration at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will allow people to use Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, phone service, on cell phones — similar to what’s now available on fixed lines.

The mobile VoIP services now more common allow people merely to connect their cell phones to the Net at “hot spots” using Wi-Fi wireless access. [Read the rest]

[tags]voip,mobile,phones[/tags]