TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric announced it developed Internet Protocol (IP) mobile technology for wireless local area network (WLAN) and PHS data communications. The firm is aimed at launching commercial service via its subsidiary by March 2004.
Users of the service can make a call from a mobile phone to another mobile terminal free, or make a call from a mobile phone to a fixed-line telephone for 10 yen (US$0.08) for three minutes or less, Mitsubishi said. The service is based on its own original technology called HCAP method. The HCAP works under the IPv4 network, the current standard for IP networks.
IP Talk, a telephone service provider of the Mitsubishi Group, has been providing IP telephony service based on HCAP since June. IP Talk will launch experimental service for the mobile service in October and will launch commercial service by March 2004.
