Comments on: Fixed-Mobile Convergence: There Is A Point http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/10/fixed-mobile-convergence-whats-the-point/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: sudhakar reddy http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/10/fixed-mobile-convergence-whats-the-point/#comment-2443 sudhakar reddy Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:52:45 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/10/fixed-mobile-convergence-whats-the-point/#comment-2443 IS FMC WORTH TRYING IN ENTERPRISE SECTOR FROM CONVENIENE & FLEXIBILITY ANGLE. ..........reddy. IS FMC WORTH TRYING IN ENTERPRISE SECTOR FROM CONVENIENE & FLEXIBILITY ANGLE.
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]]> By: Tomi T Ahonen http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/10/fixed-mobile-convergence-whats-the-point/#comment-2158 Tomi T Ahonen Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:02:58 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/10/fixed-mobile-convergence-whats-the-point/#comment-2158 FMC is like running after the train that has left the station Hi Carlo and fellow readers of Mobhappy Thanks for the kind mention of my blog. I'd like to clarify it a bit. In my blog I made the point that calls on mobiles are already cheaper than calls in fixed wireline networks on most OECD countries and thus "price" or cost savings to the caller as the reason why wait until landline connection, is becoming a moot point. But I also point out that there are many more mobile phone users than fixed lines, and that 25% of all internet access is via mobile. The whole trend worldwide is to mobile access to all communications. Much more money is already generated on mobile networks than on fixed networks. Yes, there is a huge interest in FMC - Fixed-Mobile Convergence - but this is primarily from those players who are stuck with fixed assets, and are trying to catch up with the mobile world. Not unlike BT in the UK after it sold off O2. Today it is trying desperately to get back into mobile with the Fusion (formerly Bluephone) solution and its MVNO arrangements in the UK. FMC for fixed line telecoms is like running after the train that has left the station. Yes it is activity and yes it can even get you somewhere, but you will never catch the train. In my blog I suggest that FMC is a distraction to mobile operators and really not worth their while. That FMC is really a desperation move by fixed line operators trying to catch onto the huge global mobile wave that has passed them by. I should also point out that VoIP on mobile is not fixed-mobile convergence. It is a technology on mobile, and VoIP is inevitable. But just because the voice is packet-based (IP) voice rather than circuit-switched based ("traditional" cellular voice) makes it no more "fixed". Yes, VoIP is an IP trend, but that is not fixed/mobile in any way. We can have IP on fixed as 75% of internet access is; and we can have IP on mobile as 25% of internet access already is (mostly obviously in Japan, China and Korea). Thanks Carlo, and keep up the excellent work at this blogsite, always a must-read to me :-) Tomi Ahonen :-) FMC is like running after the train that has left the station

Hi Carlo and fellow readers of Mobhappy

Thanks for the kind mention of my blog. I’d like to clarify it a bit. In my blog I made the point that calls on mobiles are already cheaper than calls in fixed wireline networks on most OECD countries and thus “price” or cost savings to the caller as the reason why wait until landline connection, is becoming a moot point.

But I also point out that there are many more mobile phone users than fixed lines, and that 25% of all internet access is via mobile. The whole trend worldwide is to mobile access to all communications. Much more money is already generated on mobile networks than on fixed networks.

Yes, there is a huge interest in FMC - Fixed-Mobile Convergence - but this is primarily from those players who are stuck with fixed assets, and are trying to catch up with the mobile world. Not unlike BT in the UK after it sold off O2. Today it is trying desperately to get back into mobile with the Fusion (formerly Bluephone) solution and its MVNO arrangements in the UK. FMC for fixed line telecoms is like running after the train that has left the station. Yes it is activity and yes it can even get you somewhere, but you will never catch the train.

In my blog I suggest that FMC is a distraction to mobile operators and really not worth their while. That FMC is really a desperation move by fixed line operators trying to catch onto the huge global mobile wave that has passed them by.

I should also point out that VoIP on mobile is not fixed-mobile convergence. It is a technology on mobile, and VoIP is inevitable. But just because the voice is packet-based (IP) voice rather than circuit-switched based (”traditional” cellular voice) makes it no more “fixed”. Yes, VoIP is an IP trend, but that is not fixed/mobile in any way. We can have IP on fixed as 75% of internet access is; and we can have IP on mobile as 25% of internet access already is (mostly obviously in Japan, China and Korea).

Thanks Carlo, and keep up the excellent work at this blogsite, always a must-read to me :-)

Tomi Ahonen :-)

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