“Several European groups said they have demonstrated the first vertical handover in commercial networks providing seamless switching among different network connections while an application was running. L.M. Ericsson, TeliaSonera Finland, Wi-Fi supplier Radionet and Helsinki University of Technology demonstrated the wireless local area network, local area network and GPRS network handover. ”
Very cool! Next is getting voice communications to handover between GSM and VoIP(over WiFi).
Originally published on Pocketnow on November 9, 2003. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.