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Archive for February 13th, 2008

MWC: Providers have big opportunity to sell FMC to SMBs

According to a new survey of SMB and enterprise decision-makers, Converged Mobility (also called Fixed Mobile Convergence or FMC) is the new service SMBs are most likely to consider from a service provider.

The survey was conducted by RONIN Corporation on behalf of Nortel, and asked ~900 decision-makers across the US, UK and France. The survey was designed to gain insight into SMB perception and use of VoIP, along with SIP applications like click-to-connect and converged mobility for Wi-Fi and cellular calling from dual-mode handsets.

Converged mobility - the ability to make phone calls over WiFi and cellular networks via a dual-mode phone - was the #1 choice of respondents. It was followed by web services like click-to-connect and converged desktop applications …

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