FMC at 3GSM
With the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona coming up next week, there's a lot of buzz about the fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) offerings on display at the show — Wi-Fi Planet goes through the various announcements, and quotes research firm InfoTech as anticipating that VoWi-Fi revenue in the enterprise space will grow to $1.1 billion by 2010.
At Techworld, Matthew Broersma also goes over the list of FMC solutions being displayed at 3GSM. "The idea of building Wi-Fi into mobile phone handsets is to give a single device access to both mobile and fixed telephony, in other words, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC)," Broersma writes. "The idea has been around in various forms for some time now, but vendors say this year's systems are more practical for real-world usage."