We’ve been using and recommending CounterPath’s (formerly Xten) softphones ever since we started in the VoIP business and it’s always been a great product, from the free XLite to Xpro and eventually EyeBeam. About a week ago, CounterPath added a new product to their family of software VoIP phones, Bria. Apparently they bumped it to 2.0 right away, because I cannot recall having seen a 1.0 version ever before. Oh well.

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According to an article in Computer World, fixed/mobile convergence is still years off. While the UMA technology is there, operators are not very keen to cut into their own profit margins, and apparently customers don’t really care either. Operators that already launched fixed/mobile offerings, such as Deutsche Telekom, are already scrapping their offers again.

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