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| Mobile VOIP Would be Great for Carriers
I don't see the problem. I think they will start selling mobile bandwith on a metered basis. If I am on Sprint's Simply Unlimited plan how will Sprint lose money if I am making VOIP calls over POTs calls.
I've seen the first mobile voip companies hit the market, but I think that the potential for crap calls is far higher. You need low latency and decent bandwith for a good VOIP call. A codec can compress things down, but there is no codec that can seriously compensate for latency.
People will pick their carriers based on who has the best 3g coverage EVERYWHERE and that will surely be an area for competition. In the beginning, I think you are going to see mobile VOIP more like the psuedo VOIP clients on the Crackberry where the dialing and signaling is handled via data but that the voice goes over a trunk to some sort of portal much like the way iSkoot works.
I run an Asterisks box, have laptop softphones, Nokia E series phones (VOIP via wifi, etc). Calls over wifi when I am stationary are great. Hand offs when I am walking on a "wired campus" are imperfect.
I've done VOIP over 3g and had places where it worked well, but I have also had a number of problems. People don't appreciate being my "ginny pig" to save cell minutes. When I am calling them from abroad, they tolerate it. When I call them from next store, that is a different story. Sitting at a window seat at a restaurant in central Manhattan you might have a great call with the current technology, but what about on a light rail train or in a rural city with a population of 32,000 with only EDGE or 1RXTT.
I think the think that cell phone companies will come out with a product that will integrate cell phones on to their network for a flat fee per handset. If I charged a company $99 a month to make the handset a virtual SIP or IAX extension where company transfer, extensions, and the like worked I still have a huge market. Gone may be the power user who goes through $400 minutes a month, but (s)he is probably on an unlimited plan already. Whether the companies can gouge you more for Blackberry on top of this remains to be seen.
On top of this, this would operate as a way to lure employees who pay for their own plans on to company X. Besides any discount, you have the "option" of having a corporate line on your cell as well (with a DND feature obviously).
If I were ATT, Verizon, etc., I would view mobile VOIP as a new found opportunity. International roaming, however, will certainly get interesting. | |
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| said by stufried  :I think the think that cell phone companies will come out with a product that will integrate cell phones on to their network for a flat fee per handset. If I charged a company $99 a month to make the handset a virtual SIP or IAX extension where company transfer, extensions, and the like worked I still have a huge market. Gone may be the power user who goes through $400 minutes a month, but (s)he is probably on an unlimited plan already. Whether the companies can gouge you more for Blackberry on top of this remains to be seen. RIM is actually about to release that very product.
»news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/···5,00.htm
said by RIM Press Release :
Research In Motion is to release a version of its Mobile Voice System Server product for Cisco's Unified Communications Manager, the Canadian handset manufacturer announced on Monday.
Mobile Voice System (MVS), which RIM originally brought out in 2007, turns the BlackBerry smartphone into an extension of the corporate PBX. Its customisation for Cisco's unified communications (UC) system marks the first time it has been tailored to any one particular vendor's PBX.
One feature of the new product is the ability to have up to four devices ring at once, including BlackBerry smartphones and Cisco Unified IP phones. It will also be possible to dial out from a RIM smartphone using either the BlackBerry number or the enterprise line, and to move a call from the handset to a Cisco Unified IP phone without breaking the session.
As a unified-communications system, it provides one contactable corporate phone number, one caller ID and one voice mailbox, working across both the handset and the deskbound IP phone.
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