BT Fusion

Amberley Museum in West Sussex

BT Fusion was a telecommunications product available from BT Group in the United Kingdom until 1 April 2009 when it was withdrawn.^[1] It "fused" together mobile telephony and, from the user's point of view, conventional landline telephony. In fact, the fixed portion of the link was provided by a Voice over IP implementation using the domestic ADSL service. The BT Fusion service was compatible with the BT Smart Hub.^{[citation needed]}

The premise of the service was that it could reduce mobile phone costs by not using the mobile network when the user is at home. The same phone was used (a modified version of the

telecommunication convergence.^{[citation needed}

]

From the base station, at-home calls were connected to the phone network using an

broadband connection; only those with BT Broadband connections were eligible for the service. Voice over IP protocols were used to transmit the call, but this was intended to remain largely unnoticed from the user's point of view. In particular, the charges for calls made over the "home" part of a BT Fusion system were essentially the same as landline call charges.^{[citation needed}

]

Some commentators criticised the service as expensive and a "solution in search of a problem". In particular, they pointed to free or cheaper-than-landline IP phone systems like Skype.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "BT 'BluePhone' Fusion is better than Skype because...?", The Register, 15 June 2005

External links

BT site
"BT 'BluePhone' Fusion is better than Skype because...?", The Register, 15 June 2005

[1] "BT 'BluePhone' Fusion is better than Skype because...?", The Register, 15 June 2005

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