Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Counterpath’s FMC comes to Slovenia.

This is not really news, because I heard about this at MWC, but nonetheless shows that FMC is still alive and growing.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I use client Truphone and my T-Mobile HotSpot @ Home services a lot because they help flatten the phone bill and keep things manageable. I also make lots of use of the Skypephone when I’m somewhere I can use it, like the UK.

So in seeing this report about some market research from ABI I can’t but be anything but more than a cheerleader here. This is so accurate in perspective that its got to be something the incumbent wireline guys are worried about.

The experience of WiFi VoIP using Truphone and TMO the last two weeks from inside my London apartment and elsewhere was very good. Only downside I saw seemed to impact TMO where they seemed to have less control of the media and I would suffer from latency when the apartment’s broadband was being slammed.

When you take the ABI report and add in some thoughts from other analysts like Dean Bubley, plus commentary from the land down under’s Jo Best of ZDNet/AU you have to realize that FMC is not just someone’s dream, it’s someone else’s reality.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I got to see the CounterPath (i.e. BridgePort Networks) Fixed Mobile solution in action.

It worked. Calls went seamlessly between desktop computers, mobile phones, with a one number solution, installed at the carriers network operation center. Unlike prior demos when BridgePort Networks was an agency client pre-acquisition, this was a real live deployment that is being sold by a carrier in Eastern Europe.

Now only if more carriers would realize the value proposition this has to offer:

1) The Internet becomes a giant roaming cloud.

2) Customers, especially enterprise customers, get a single solution for laptop and mobile calling.

3) The idea of Presence really gets delivered.

There’s a lot more to this, but it’s one of my favorite "new" technologies at the show…

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.

PS: If you are not familiar how to read VON Magazine, when the image appear, click on it to zoom, then you can use the mouse to roam. Also use the toolbar at the top to guide yourself around the magazine.

Source: voipcentral.org

Jeff Pulver as I know is one of the smart bloggers of the current IP industry. I went through his 2007 predictions for IP Communications Industry. In fact, Pulvers predictions are based on minimal of biasness or no bias.

Jeff has strongly argued,

While the hype surrounding Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) will grow during 2007, the FMC marketplace will continue to stagnate until such time that software becomes widely available for dual model phones that offer seamless roaming across unaffiliated wifi/wimax hotspots.

Highlights

1.Enterprises to amalgamate their communication networks

2.Growth will persist in IP Peering between service providers.

3.The PSTN to turn into the IP-based public communications network of the future.

4.Cable Operators to apply new solutions to connect their voice subscribers to 3G Mobile Networks

5.Rise of Independent voice over broadband service providers

6.IP TV will dominate year 2007.

7.Legal hassles in the field of digital rights and copyright protection seems to be resolved

In conclusion Jeff says,

Although regulators and legislators will begin to better appreciate the power of IP technology to dramatically improve emergency response and disabilities access capabilities, Lobbyists and Policymakers and traditional telecom and video providers in the US will continue to try to apply legacy rules and regulations on Internet based applications, be it voice, television or radio. See the first significant regulator attempts to regulate indecency and other content on the Internet.