With the global adoption of cellular technologies and the Internet in the 1990s, the experience of calling fundamentally changed. Phone calls were no longer limited to wired handsets over proprietary circuit-switched networks. They could be made and received from anywhere in the world on an incredibly wide variety of devices.
Who in the telco industry hasn't cringed upon hearing this famous tagline? The advertisement may have been about poor network coverage, but it also spoke to the bad experience of dropped calls and poor call quality-in other words, the quality of service.
When the mobile world meets next month in Barcelona to discuss how everything is mobile, Interop Technologies and our technology experts will be discussing how everything can be virtualized as well as we exhibit in Hall 1 Stand 1C02 at Mobile World Congress February 22-25.
As VoLTE announcement news and RCS launch chatter become more frequent in the headlines, one must look at deployment time as a key catalyst to accelerating the momentum even further. The recent announcements from Telefonica and Telenor, as well as the T-Mobile news a few weeks back are proof that the tide of advanced IP service adoption is changing, which is good news for the industry.
I bet most of you read the same number of stories (weekly it seems) as I do about WiFi calling, coverage and capacity. The topic is certainly hot and so is its demand from subscribers and operators.
