BT's current home mobile service

Current BT phone options

BT have a service called BT Fusion which was launched in June 2005, which was then offered to businesses in September of that year. The service offers customers a phone contract that works as a house phone and a mobile phone, when the phone is in the house it works off the house's land line, but when the phone is outside the house it works off the mobile network. In order to do this the phone uses two technologies, first blue tooth, this is installed to the customers house so that the phone will connect to the blue tooth signal when in range. This allows for cheaper calls as it does not need to connect to the mobile network and therefore reducing the price of calls for the customer. The second is the mobile network, which works the same as any normal mobile phone. However as BT do own any mobile masts it has to pay for the use of them to the big mobile companies, this has lead to the price for a call when using the mobile network (Global System for Mobile Communications) to greater than it would using a normal mobile phone contract.

In December 2006, BT released Wifi with its BT Fusion service meaning that any calls made in a BT OpenZone (a area that has Wireless Access controlled by BT) will be cheaper meaning that their phone contracts are more appealing to customers. This access to Wifi also allows the phone to access the internet, and as the service is Wifi is this cheaper than that of the 3G service currently offered by the big mobile companies.

The current BT Fusion hub also allows friends (who have the same service at home) to use as well, providing a pin is inserted, they can get cheaper minutes whilst at a friends address. The current phones being offered by BT for this service are: Nokia 6136, Motorola A910, Samsung P200(coming soon). All phones support Wifi, a 1.3m camera and have a mp3 player.