Tag Archives: Netcom

Why is IMS getting lumped into IPTV?

Telco IPTV market status / performance varies greatly by country, because of differences in broadband / PayTV penetration and the telco’s access to competitive national content.  Generalizations are difficult to draw.  Some countries have had rocky starts while others have been relatively trouble free.  Free and France Telecom are both now over 1.5 million IPTV […]

FMC: Fixed Mobile Convergence or Fixed Mobile Conversion?

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 […]