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[mschere]

You do not have to buy the report..IDCC will become more transparent..

Mobile Operators Benefit from Wi-Fi and Cellular Convergence


“UMA and Beyond: Mobile Operators Benefit from Wi-Fi and Cellular Convergence” provides a comprehensive assessment of the UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology and Wi-Fi and cellular convergence. This report from Senza Fili Consulting presents a clear, concise overview of the technology, and explores the market drivers that will lead to adoption. To help service providers and vendors size the opportunity, it includes a forecast of the market demand and revenue opportunity for UMA services.



Topics covered



· UMA technology overview

· Standardization efforts

· Drivers to adoption in different geographic markets, with forecasts of user demand

· Services for the residential and enterprise market

· The opportunity for mobile operators

· The competitive threat to fixed operators and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service providers

· The role of handset manufacturers



Extensive forecasts (2006-2010)



· Worldwide demand for Wi-Fi and Cellular Convergence services

· Impact of Wi-Fi and Cellular Convergence on subscriber usage of fixed and cellular lines (including analysis of effect on MoU from home and away from home, on metered and unmetered calls)

· Revenues from Wi-Fi and Cellular Convergence services, including revenues gained by mobile operators (taking into account the effect of cannibalization), and revenues lost by fixed operators



All your key questions answered



· When will UMA handsets will be available and how much will they cost?

· What is the timeline for deployment?

· Will subscribers pay for UMA services? How much is UMA worth to them?

· What is the effect of broadband and Wi-Fi penetration on UMA demand?

· Will users be able to use UMA phones in hotspots? Is this a key adoption driver?

· What is UMA and how it relates to other ongoing standardization efforts, such as 3GPP (The Third Generation Partnership Project) and IEEE 802.21?

· How can UMA guarantee quality of service (QoS)?

· How (and when) will UMA move towards SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and all-IP networks?



How this report will help you



Mobile operators – understand the opportunity offered by Wi-Fi and cellular convergence and learn how to take full advantage of it

Fixed and VoIP service providers – evaluate the competitive threat posed by UMA and develop an alternative Wi-Fi convergence strategy

Vendors – assess the demand, and establish a timeline, for Wi-Fi and cellular converged handsets and find more about the mobile operators requirements

Investors, consultants, regulators – get a better understanding of the Wi-Fi cellular convergence ecosystem and a new perspective on the potential of the technology



This report offers a timely, in-depth analysis into one of the hottest emerging areas in the cellular and Wi-Fi industry. It is essential reading for those evaluating UMA and those who want to stay at the forefront of technological innovation in mobile telecommunications.


If you would explain convergence, in a nutshell, I could impress my wife and all those who I talked into buying IDCC.

[JeffreyHF]

"Convergence" is simply an industry "buzz word", overused, overhyped, and overextended. It hardly is proprietary to IDCC, any more than was "system-on-a-chip", which was similarly spun during the Infineon-deal days. Are we making money from that Infineon deal?

[mschere]

Convergence is indeed Proprietary to IDCC in the form of I-CDMA and IDCC's IP Portfolio..Lucent will be the first to acknowledge that fact..