Fixed Mobile Convergence
Fixed Mobile Convergence is a way to connect a mobile phone to a fixed line infrastructure to create a single telecommunications network foundation. With the convergence between mobile and fixed line networks, telecommunications operators can provide services to users regardless of their location, access technology, and terminal.
Before Fixed Mobile Convergence, the fixed and mobile environment was completely separated (device, service, billing).
There are three types of Fixed Mobile Convergence:
1. A billing and prices unification: same pricing for fixed and mobile voice
2. Same services: Service package available for fixed and mobile voice
3. Using the same device: a single device for fixed and mobile communications
The customers’ real expectations are:
-Mobile cost reduction
-Do not care which device they use, depending on location or destination call
-Simplifies device park management
-Improves reachability of coworkers
-Uses new communication solutions to improve productivity
-Single contact for all communication services
The main benefits of convergence markets are the service management simplicity, the
optimization and cost control, and a better availability and connectivity.
