BT has announced a range of Wi-Fi handsets which, it says, will use the company’s growing network of hotspots and proposed Wireless Cities to offer customers thousands of extra sites to use its Fusion service.
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The operator is also putting the phones into high street retailer Phones4U, which has 400 UK stores nationwide.
The company’s plan is to build 12 Wireless Cities (meaning widespread WiFi coverage in city centres) by March 2008.
BT says that the Nokia 6136, Motorola A910 and the Samsung P200, all dual mode phones, will boost sales and drive demand for its fixed mobile convergence product. And if the promise of VoIP calls from WiFi hotspots is not enough, the carrier is throwing in free internet access.
Steve Andrews, BT chief, Mobility and Convergence, said, “Today, Fusion takes another huge step forward with an exciting new evolution offering even more places to get great value mobile calls.
“These latest free handsets will allow customers the freedom to just make the calls and surf the web via BT broadband without having to think twice.”