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Articles tagged with: Fixed Mobile Convergence
Consumers Adopting Dual Mode Phones for Fixed Mobile Convergence While Enterprises Lag Behind
Led by consumer demand, fixed mobile convergence (FMC) is taking off around the world, even as businesses watch from the sidelines, says a new study from Insight Research. According to the new market research report, over the next five years FMC will generate more than $35 billion in revenue for service providers and hardware vendors. FMC service allows the same handset to access telecommunications services through both fixed and cellular networks. The handset, which can toggle between fixed and mobile calling, can also leverage WiFi hotspots, voice over IP (VoIP) technology, and voice over wireless local area networks (WLANs). more
Fixed Mobile Faces Problems Without Increased Vendor Co-Operation
Informa Telecoms & Media is forecasting that there will be 170 million Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) subscribers by 2012 generating US$33.4 billion of revenue, but caution that without an increase in cooperation between all of the value chain players involved the industry faces an uphill struggle. more
Related Tags: femtocell, ims, fmc, opex
RadioFrame Networks Announces GSM and UMTS Femtocell Products
RadioFrame Networks has announced the introduction of its first set of commercial femtocell products utilizing the company's recently introduced OmniRadio Processor Platform. RadioFrame's femtocell products are small, low cost "access point" like base stations that will catalyze the fixed mobile convergence market for homes, small and medium enterprises needing licensed spectrum solutions. more
Related Tags: femtocell, picocell, femtocells
Nokia Wins Turkish Network Contract
Nokia and Turkish mobile operator AVEA have signed a three-year framework agreement for the deployment of the Nokia MSC Server 3GPP compliant mobile softswitch. The Nokia softswitch will be central to AVEA's plans to modernize its network by creating Turkey's first Next Generation Network (NGN). more
Related Tags: avea, capex, core-network, 3gpp, next-generation-network, ims, push-to-talk
Nokia Sells Softwitch to French Operator
Nokia and SFR have signed a contract for the turnkey supply of the Nokia MSC Server (MSS) mobile softswitch to enhance the French operator's network coverage and capacity. The network modernization deal upgrades SFR's current circuit switched core network with a Nokia solution that fully enables fixed mobile convergence and the rapid growth of 3G-traffic. more
Related Tags: core-network, sfr, mobile-softswitch, netact
GSM Contract Expansion for The Bahamas
Nortel has been awarded a GSM expansion contract in the Bahamas from the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC). The contract will also allow the operator to triple the capacity of its wireless network, extending service from Abaco and Bimini to include all the Bahamas' family islands by the end of September 2006. more
Related Tags: nortel, ims, bahamas-telecommunications-company, btc
Staff at ETSI (The European Telecommunications Standards Institute) are celebrating the 20 years of effort that lie behind the awesome progress of GSM, the first technology phenomenon of the 21st century. more
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Landline Operators Driving Fixed-Mobile Convergence
Fixed telecoms operators will be the driving force behind fixed mobile convergence over the next five years, according to a report from Informa Telecoms & Media. The study predicts 92 million subscribers by 2011 generating US$28 billion in revenues and comprising 3% of overall subscriptions. Fixed operators will aggressively roll out FMC services in order to target the ongoing threat of 'fixed mobile substitution' - where people are using mobiles rather than landlines. more
Related Tags: mvno, unified-communications, bt, fmc
Demand for Telecom Regulation Advice Increases in Eastern Europe
Ovum Consulting says that it is intensifying its reach in the ICT sector in Central and Eastern Europe. This move is in response to the increasing demand for consulting services in the region, particularly in the areas of mobile, regulation and Fixed Mobile Convergence and Fixed Mobile Substitution. Ovum estimates that the CEE mobile market surpassed the 250 million subscriber mark in late 2005, providing total revenues of more than US$50 billion. more
Israeli Operator Orders Fixed/Mobile Platform
Israel's iDEN operator, MiRS has ordered a core convergence switching solution from Tekelec. The solution enables MiRS' transition to the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture and enables next-generation capabilities, including fixed mobile convergence (FMC) and hosted session initiation protocol (SIP) services. Tekelec's IMS architecture drives switching for both MiRS' entire mobile device line and SIP-based clients, and it supports the execution of common network applications. more
Related Tags: vas, iden, ims, mirs