As much as I would like to go, I won't make CTIA this year. I have been deluged with product pitches since I am on the press list and most of the pitches seemed boring or just not a fit for my various beats. This pitch seemed exciting so I decided to pass it along. I hope I have some time to touch base with the company because this seems really interesting.
I will be honest, I never heard of fixed-mobile convergence but am happy there is a new telecom acronym for my IP Telephony Dictionary
BTW if you purchased the new edition released at ITEXPO Miami expecting this term to be in there, no refunds. Sorry :-)
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Outsmart Ltd. a provider of complete fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and intelligent networks based solutions, would like to meet with you at CTIA in
Analysts predict that fixed mobile convergence (FMC) will be the strongest trend in telecommunications in the next three years.
Outsmart (www.outsmarttelecom.com) brings the benefits of mobile telephony into the fixed environment, irrespective of location, access technology and terminals and provides a complete convergence of services, networks and devices to both fixed and mobile users today. It allows operators to enter and dominate the VoIP market.
SmartFMC meets the business and technological convergence needs of the communications community. Integrating SIP-based telephony (VoIP) into the mobile core network, SmartFMC allows fixed phones to appear to the mobile network as if they were mobile phones. The fixed-phone therefore provides all the services and benefits of mobile telephony such as virtual private network, prepaid, voicemail, ring-back tones, SMS, multimedia messaging services and address book. Likewise, SmartFMC enables mobile operators to extend the core network to offer fixed telephony services based on VoIP. Users may access through ADSL, cable modem, WiFi, WLAN, or other broadband IP connections across a variety of VoIP terminals. These include IP-phones, soft phones running on PC or PDA, POTS with ATA or Dual Mode (GSM+WLAN) mobile phones.
FMC or Fixed Mobile Convergence
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I've met with a couple of companies in this space this week, there have been a few announcements out of VON as well. Basically they allow you to integrate your cell and desktop phone, so that you can route calls as you like, transfer calls, and share the same number. There are also efforts such as IMS to enable transfering of calls across systems with guaranteed service levels among providers.
I'm still not sure that this beats a simple IP client running on the cell phone, we'll have to see I guess.
Thanks Irwin! Your feedback is much appreciated.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! A recent article states that "FMC Telecom is adding SMS to the company fold". This is nothing but MORE name-dropping and empty technology dribble to form ANOTHER "shell" holding company for Ed Berkhof. Who does he think he is? Allen Stanford? Ed Berkhof and his previous co-conspirator, Sidney D. "Trip" Camper used name dropping, donations to St. Jude's, and falsified tax documents to gain trust and get private investors to hand over thousands of dollars in cash, trips to England, and ultimately control of their company. Ed berkhof is NOT a president or COO of anything - Ed Berkhof is a third rate bass player looking for another victim to give him money so he can pay his creditors = PONZI SCHEMER. SEC files state that Sidney Trip Camper was fired from Elandia by Allen Stanford when the Ahkoy family's business fell victim to investment fraud. Before the ink was dry on his resignation letter, Trip Camper and Ed Berkhof were already busy ruining ANOTHER company - in Los Angeles. Trip Camper and Ed Berkhof illegally signed over company stock to themselves and eventually performed a hostile takeover and ruined an honest and profitable company. Since then, Elandia is being sued by the Ahkoy family, the FBI has nabbed Allen Stanford - and the FBI is now looking for other schemers in his network like Sidney D. Trip Camper and Ed Berkhof.