Nokia Announces VoIP Plans, Hints at Wi-Fi Phones
Are wireless companies in trouble?
If VoIP catches on, and it will, how much trouble would wireless companies be?
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Echternacht said:
If VoIP catches on, and it will, how much trouble would wireless companies be?
Cellular networks should always be in demand, but it's common landline companies that are being hurt by VoIP. The major cellular carriers should be able to pad their bottom lines with the advent of UMA networks that use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
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I don't think landline companies will truely be in trouble. Much of the internet traffic uses their circuits. How often to the phone lines get hacked?
I work for a 911 center and VoIP is going to be a problem until all of the providers agree to provide data.
I work for a 911 center and VoIP is going to be a problem until all of the providers agree to provide data.
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PTCO911 said:
I don't think landline companies will truely be in trouble. Much of the internet traffic uses their circuits. How often to the phone lines get hacked?
I work for a 911 center and VoIP is going to be a problem until all of the providers agree to provide data.
Hey, I'm just repeating what the landline industry has been saying for the past 2 years...VoIP is hurting their business.
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Echternacht said:
If VoIP catches on, and it will, how much trouble would wireless companies be?
Mobile carriers are only in trouble when you can start receiving a wifi signal everywhere and wifi billing issues are resolved.
Since Wifi has output power restrictions and operates in unlicensed spectrum which has plenty of interference, that is not happening anytime soon. The unlicensed and interference issues also end up meaning small cells which means lots of handoffs between cells and hence poor efficiency/quality of service.
The carriers do not mind if you use wifi in public places because it takes you off of their network and their networks really can't handle all that much data and they don't eve...
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muchdrama and viper both nailed it. it's not cellular carriers who are threatened by this.
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