Nokia Corp. (NOK) plans to have phones that can switch between mobile and fixed networks available for consumers next year, as telecoms operators increasingly try to woo customers with converged services. The world's largest handset maker will start selling a dual-network phone targeted at corporate users this year, and one for consumers is due in the first half of 2006, Olli-Pekka Lintula, director of strategic marketing at the technology platforms division, told Dow Jones Newswires.

"All future phones for enterprises from Nokia will also be wi-fi equipped," Lintula said.

[...] By 2009 Nokia forecasts that there will be just over 100 million wi-fi enabled phones globally, up from a few million this year.