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BBX Cell and Service
Since there is a high percentage of internet users and many communication methods, BBX has combined six distinctive technologies into one: VoIP, Instant Messaging, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile Phone, and digital video technologies. BBX Corporation's product is the BBX Cell and Home Phone. Its service is the instant messenger, BBX Service, online. BBX Corporations also provide high-speed internet to its members and as with BBX Corporation's technologies, internet is all that they need to communicate along with the necessary gadgets.

Technology

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)
Wi-Fi is a trade mark for sets of product compatibility standards for wireless local area networks (WLANs) (Wikipedia). It allows you to connect to a local network when near on of the network's access point. This connection is made possible by radio signals, which throws away the plug ins. How it works is that if the local area network has internet connection, then the Wi-Fi compatible devices have internet too. This trademark is controlled by the Wi-Fi Alliance, which BBX Cell and Service have partner with. This makes it possible for BBX Cell Phones to come equipped with Wi-Fi technologies. Of course, laptops have Wi-Fi built-in into their systems and possibly the home computers will come with Wi-Fi as well. This Wi-Fi system if very advance will allow BBX Cell or laptop computers to talk anywhere in the world at a very low-cost to costumers. The earth will never look smaller.

Bluetooth
Bluetooth is the same as Wi-Fi, but it focuses on Personal area networks (PANs). It works by providing a way for mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, etc. to exchange information securely and globally at low costs at short range radio frequency (Wikipedia). This is especially good for the BBX Home Phone because Bluetooth technology uses very little energy or power which with the home phone you might only want it for only a short range around the house, which Bluetooth is totally capable of doing; although more research is needed to be done on it to increase it's distance usage.

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
VoIP is the transferring or routing of information, voice, over the internet by links connected to a network joined together than instead of the old traditional phone lines. With this technology, long distance calls or any call will be extremely cheap almost free. Yet, the directing of traffics or data isn't solidifying or perfect. There are some glitches in that some data transfers over IP networks may be damaged or misrouted. Control and reliability is low, but with BBX Cell and Service that may be another story. BBX Corporation has combined VoIP with instant messaging to come with the BBX service. BBX service is online and free of charge to anyone. Just like instant messaging, BBX service transfer voice or video conversations to costumers with the necessary equipment setup, which BBX Corporations transfer all those information by internet means to customers. Of course, in order to cope with the existing system of cell phone, telephone, and technologies in communication, BBX Corporation have developed a product, the BBX Cell or Home Phone, which will allow all costumers to linked together into one gigantic instant messaging network. These products are wireless and can connect to the internet, which will automatically connect to the BBX service over the internet. That will allow members to use their cell or home phone with just the internet fees instead of all three fees: home phone, cell phone, and internet.

Instant Messengers
A hosted program that allows instant messaging like that of email, but it is instant and direct in real-time. It is a letter conversation, which is immediate like a phone conversation. Over the years, Instant Messengers have been engrafted with video, audio, VoIP, and web conferencing features. This is exactly what BBX Corporation is going after with its BBX Service. With video and audio features, people can have face-to-face conversations while a thousand miles away or run a business in another country. Another things that is unique about BBX Service is that its instant messenger (IM) can link to other IM customers, which also allows its members to link to existing cell phone provider companies. In this way, no one is out of reach from BBX Corporations.

Spam
IM are the most popular targets for spam today, so BBX has created a receiving list for all its members to block unwanted calls from someone or spam. They can edit their list by allowing calls from certain people or businesses to go through or ban them. Also, BBX Service is protected by a firewall that automatically blocks spam from its customers; in order that its members can link channels safely and exchanged information flowingly.

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