Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Ken Kamp has written how the Fixed-mobile Convergence (FMC) providing the means to nomadic workers a provision to work anywhere, anytime, like I do now, at a coffee shop in San Francisco, waiting to be picked up by Solarion. Only tools I have is Nokia N810 and Nokia N81!. Of course I was directed the article by Andy’s VoIP Watch.

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Source: voipcentral.org

In its recent report, the research firm Analysys highlights the benefits of Fixed-Mobile Convergence services, which it says would bring down their voice spending by thirty percent if they combine it with VoIP technology.

So, it is high time for the mobile network operators to work hard to slow the fall in enterprise voice revenues in the face of technology that can let companies to by pass their more expensive services, the report adds.

Margaret Hopkins, the author of Fixed-Mobile Convergence in the Enterprise Voice Market comments,

Companies are spending over 80% of their call bill on mobile services, and that is causing them to turn to new technology looking for savings. Wireless gateways, VoIP and Wi-Fi offer them ways of cutting this bill that are independent of the network operators. Operators need to come up with innovative services to minimize the revenue leakage.

Therefore, the mobile operators should start providing corporate home-zone services, which is based on femtocells to cut off demand for dual mode WiFi phones which threats them in terms of traffic and revenue.

Source: voipcentral.org

Fixed mobile convergence (FMC) is now order of the day. The fixed and mobile network operators will be spending nearly $450 million in capital infrastructure in the next five years to provide FMC to their customers.

In its latest study, the research firm ABI Research claims this investment would be made to bring improvement in traffic migration to VoIP service providers and prepare ground for the introduction of more SIP-based services.

The study also predicts operators will generate $97billion worldwide in service revenue from FMC applications in 2011. A major part of this revenue would accrue form lower fixed-line call charges to mobile users.

ABI Research explains operators suspect their core voice revenues come under pressure from VoIP and they need to minimize call substitution.

Ian Cox, an analyst at ABI Research concludes,

One way is to provide services over the broadband fixed network using a mobile device. Dual-use and single-use devices will be able to do that over WiFi and micro cellular access points in the home and office.

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