INDUSTRY NEWS

20 August 2008

FMC Access Points 'Being Deployed'

More than 103 million fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) access points will be in service around the world by 2013, according to ABI Research.

The research company suggested that the FMC market is in for interesting times, thanks to the significant penetration that UMA-based wireless (Wi-Fi) dual-mode devices have made in both Europe and North America.

With competition in the form of the first commercial femtocell-based solutions, which are now being deployed, ABI Research questioned whether there is enough room for both kinds of convergence.

"Although UMA-based Wi-Fi solutions have seen early gains in green-field markets, these solutions have not proliferated much outside their current carrier footprints," said Stuart Carlaw, vice-president of the company.

"This can be attributed partly to the carriers’ desire to assess femtocell developments, but also to lingering concerns regarding the concept of Wi-Fi based fixed-mobile convergence."

ABI Research predicted that mobile-based femtocells will take over from UMA- and SIP-based Wi-Fi solutions by 2013, accounting for 62 per cent of the market at that time.

Earlier this month, the analyst predicted that location-based mobile social networking revenues wil reach $3.3 billion by 2013, driven by demand among users for the sharing of geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content.

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