RoamAD Highlights Impact of mobile VoIP/VoWiFi on Metro Wi-Fi Market
-/June 8, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-RoamAD, the leading supplier of software for infrastructure-mesh metro Wi-Fi networks, today announced key findings from its recent review of the impact of mobile VoIP/VoWiFi on the metro Wi-Fi market.
RoamAD undertook a survey of customers, partners, and prospective purchasers of metro Wi-Fi networks in order to quantify the importance of mobile voice as a key application for metro Wi-Fi networks. RoamAD measured the requirements of customers and trends over the last 12 months. The survey results show that more than 75% of network operators and service providers surveyed now have mobile VoIP or mobile VoWiFi identified as a mandatory requirement for new metro Wi-Fi networks.
“The key driver is rapidly becoming mobile VoIP and not mobile data,” said Martyn Levy, RoamAD’s VP of Business Development. “It is no longer just a nice-to-have.”
Nearly 50% of those surveyed in the last three months identified mobile voice as being either as important as, or more important than, mobile broadband data. Twelve months ago, less than 10% of customers identified voice as a core application on their metro Wi-Fi networks.
The growing interoperability between cellular and Wi-Fi networks was also cited as a major factor in the increase in demand for mobile VoIP/VoWiFi.
“The increase in availability of dual mode Wi-Fi/Cellular mobile phones and SIP handsets, coupled with the decrease in prices for metro Wi-Fi network equipment, means that metro Wi-Fi now represents the most cost-effective way to deploy a mobile voice network” Levy added.
“The results of RoamAD's survey tie in with what I see in the municipal wireless broadband market,” said Esme Vos, Founder of MuniWireless.com. “Municipalities are looking to save millions of dollars every year by migrating their employees’ mobile voice communications onto a citywide Wi-Fi network," she continued.
RoamAD’s survey also noted that the trend towards metro Wi-Fi has shifted from mainly developing markets (for areas where there is little or no existing telecommunications infrastructure) to also include developed markets where metro Wi-Fi networks are being deployed to deliver both mobile VoIP/VoWiFi and mobile data as a complement to the services offered on 3G networks.
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