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.
