Novatel Wireless is releasing a new set of products called “Ovation” that act as Voice-over-IP systems for home and small offices—but don’t use broadband connections. Instead, they route traffic onto European 3G networks, which may not be fast compared to cable, DSL, or fiber, but offers enough throughput to run voice traffic over the network, allowing customers who can’t get a faster solution to still use a VoIP solution. It’s not the sort of products that are going to excite many of you—especially if you don’t live in Europe—but it provokes a wistful sigh to think about nationwide wireless data networks that are cheap enough to use as data pipes for voice. We’ll get there soon enough, I guess, but I’m getting antsy.
Novatel’s Desktop 3G Marvel [GigaOm]
