Title :
An Assessment of Fixed-Mobile Convergence
Author :
Waclawsky, J. ; Briley, Bruce
Author_Institution :
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
Abstract :
FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) is introduced as an approach for converging wireless and wireline networks. Even though it has a number of appealing aspects, it also has significant technical, political and competitive problems.
Keywords :
mobile radio; radio networks; fixed-mobile convergence; wireless network; wireline network; Application software; Communications Society; Convergence; GSM; IP networks; Internet telephony; Mobile handsets; Radio control; USA Councils; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2007. ICC '07. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0353-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2007.879