Wireless VoIP threatens cellular voice revenues

According to researcher Analysys, the emergence of wireless VoIP through WiFi threatens to impact carrier's wireless voice revenues. The new report claims that WiFi will quickly emerge as the preferred wireless technology for wireless VoIP, edging out Bluetooth, which will likely be killed off by the continued growth of WLAN systems. While some carriers plan to offer dual cellular/wireless VoIP solutions to head off this trend, it seems likely that wireless VoIP will impact carrier voice revenues no matter what strategy they take. The study warns that 3G mobile carriers have little incentive to offer VoIP services as W-CDMA offers the cost and capacity to support fixed mobile substitution.

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