Comments on: Will Wireless-Wireline Convergence be a big blah? http://gigaom.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Irwin Lazar http://gigaom.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106999 Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:52:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106999 Jesse, there are numerous accounts of folks making VoIP calls over EV-DO (which according to Verizon provides 400-600 kbps, which is plenty good for VoIP). See: http://www.evdoinfo.com/Tips/PC_5220/Using_VOIP_over_EVDO_-_Testing_Vonage_over_EV-DO_20050321138/.

Numerous media outlets have covered Verizon’s own efforts to develop a VoIP over EV-DO offering for launch in the next year or two, but that effort will be dependent on the next upgrade to EV-DO (1xEV-DO Revision A), which will deliver up to 1.8 MB of downstream bandwidth.

And finally, Skype announced a deal with German provider E-Plus to deliver VoIP over its UMTS network. See: http://www.telecom.paper.nl/index.asp?location=http%3A//www.telecom.paper.nl/site/news_TA.asp%3Ftype%3Dabstract%26id%3D94259%26NR%3D860

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106998 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:53:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106998 Irwin, curreently neither UMTS or EVDO provide the uplink speeds or the latency to properly support VoIP. Eventually something might and at that point the carriers will need to be selling something other than voice if they want to survive.

]]> By: Irwin Lazar http://gigaom.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106997 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:22:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106997 So how do the cell providers survive when they find that their users are buying flat-rate data plans and using high-speed data services such as UMTS and EV-DO to make calls using their own VoIP clients? I could cut my cell bill in half if I can make calls using a VoIP client on my Treo.

]]> By: Charlie Sierra http://gigaom.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106996 Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:27:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/27/will-wireless-wireline-convergence-be-a-big-blah/#comment-106996 Isn’t the true story of convergence the rush of companies trying to get in our wallets?

Sorry. Couldn’t pass up a snide comment.

More seriously, many moons ago there was blog meme along the lines of us vs. them companies. Convergence is definitely a “them” story, thus I think (hope!) it will peter out.

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