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Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices

The following is a contributed article by Mark Gentile, founder, president and CEO of Odyssey Software:
The use of converged mobile devices that combine communication and computing capabilities i…


Agito Networks Announces RoamAnywhere Mobility Router for FMC

Agito Networks this week announced the upcoming launch of its RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, which uses RF-based, location-aware tech to ensure that in-building calls are switched efficiently from cell…


Nokia Launches E51, Focuses on Mobile Unified Communications

Today in London, nokia launched the dual-mode GSM/Wi-Fi Nokia E51 smartphone – and used the launch to stress Nokia's mobile unified communications strategy.
"We see a significant opportunity …


Sweden’s TeliaSonera Launches Telia Home Free FMC Solution

Swedish carrier TeliaSonera yesterday announced plans to offer a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution called Telia Home Free.
"We are now integrating the mobile telephone in the digital home b…


Everybody Wants FMC

A recent study by Infonetics Research entitled Service Provider Plans for Next Gen Voice & IMS finds that nearly 80 percent of service providers are planning to offer fixed-mobile convergence (FMC…


Bluesocket Buys Pingtel

Dean at VoIP User picks up on today's announcement that WLAN company Bluesocket is buying VoIP company Pingtel, with the aim of cornering the market on enterprise fixed-mobile convergence.
"T…


T-Mobile Launches Hotspot @Home UMA Service Nationwide

InformationWeek's W. David Gardner reports that T-Mobile today launched its home-based Wi-Fi service HotSpot @Home, which switches subscribers seamlessly between cellular and Wi-Fi service for voi…


Fixed-Mobile Convergence for the BlackBerry

InfoWorld's Stephen Lawson looks at Research in Motion's announcement of its Blackberry MVS (Mobile Voice System), "software that makes it easier for employees and IT administrators to ke…


T-Mobile to Launch Converged Cellular/Wi-Fi Service Nationwide

Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman picks up on an article by the Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharma reporing that T-Mobile will extend its HotSpot@Home fixed-mobile convergence offering nat…


Analysys Says Femtocells Are Key to Fixed-Mobile Convergence

VNUnet's Ian Williams looks at a new report from research firm Analysys entitled Picocells and Femtocells: will indoor base stations transform the telecoms industry? which says indoor base station…