Femtocell can be thought of as the “son of FMC,” rather than using a Bluetooth or WiFi air interface and a specialized phone; it re-uses the GSM or CDMA air interface and potentially your existing mobile phone. But given FMC’s (Fixed Mobile Convergence) poor market acceptance; why should femtocell be any different? Reviewing femtocell against […]
Sigma Systems’ first User Conference (June 4th-6th, Barton Creek Resort), explored the next generation of consumer and business oriented services, including insight and discussion around emerging trends and technology developments in the following areas: targeted advertising, evolution of commercial VoIP & data services, global deployments in mobile broadband services, evolution to on-demand services, converged applications […]
Summarizing day two of SofNet. Panel session, “How Can 21CN Help Make Customers Successful?” was a who’s who on UK telecom executives with John Cunliffe, Ericsson; John Frieslaar, Huawei; Geoff Hall, Nortel; John-Paul Hemingway, Ciena; Phil Dance, BT; David Soldani, NSN; Andy Stevenson, Fujitsu; and Phil Tilley, ALU. With so many suppliers in such a […]
FMC is a tired term. Some operators and quite a few enterprises are fed-up of listening to ill-formed, technology-centric FMC pitches. Taking a simplistic view, when a consumer has a mobile phone, why do they need FMC? With virtually unlimited ‘night and weekend’ rates they already have cheap calling at home. For an enterprise, when […]