[Gllug] Alternatives to BT offering of combined mobile

[John Winters]

I noticed in the weekend's papers that BT are offering a new service
where you have a special mobile phone which has a home base station
(connected to your broadband line) which routes your calls when your at
home.  The result is that it works like a mobile when you're out and
about, but like a home phone when you're at home.  The gateway box also
gives you WiFi connectivity for your computers.

The immediate downsides I see are:

1) You have to have a BT Internet ADSL connection (not anyone else's) -
why?

2) Despite your calls being VOIP, they still propose to charge you at
land line rates.

Does anyone know of any alternative but similar offerings which don't
have the drawbacks?  ISTR seeing an ADSL modem a while back where the
splitter was built into the box and a conventional phone plugged into
the box could then make calls over either POTS or VOIP, but I can't find
it when I search.  Does it exist?

TIA,
John

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