RedOrbit - Technology - Start-Up Aims to Join Telephone and Wireless Calls

"A secretive start-up backed by two powerful Silicon Valley venture capital firms will on Monday outline its plans for bridging the gulf between mobile telephones and fixed-line phone networks.
Executives of Mountain View, California-based Stoke Inc. say they are developing a way to offer so-called 'fixed mobile convergence' inside offices, at home and around town as well -- a major stumbling block the communications industry is facing."

But the blue-chip start-up will need more than veteran executives and well-connected financial backers to succeed in a market analysts say is far from defining common standards.

"That whole area is really problematic until we get standards," said Ken Dulaney, Gartner Inc.'s senior wireless industry analyst. "There are lots of political problems here."