About two decades ago, the mobile industry got its start on the strength of early adoption of mobile phones by business users. Despite the size and heft of those early cellular phones, business users latched on to the benefits of mobility and gave the wireless industry the boost it needed to get up on its feet and drive continued success through eventual penetration into the mass consumer space.

Fast forward to today and the telecom industry is on the verge of yet another major inflection point: fixed-mobile convergence. While early FMC deployments such as those based on Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology have primarily focused on the consumer segment, lack of standards and technology incompatibility issues have prevented FMC services to be tailored for the enterprise.

The bottom line is that operators that successfully deliver FMC services to the enterprise stand much to gain. Two decades ago the business user jump-started adoption of mobile services. This time around success with the enterprise segment could very well translate into eventual mass scale success again.

Source: http://www.5001.net