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Wireless VoIP Services Open Mobile Market To New Players
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Microwaves & RF
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May 1, 2005
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CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND-Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) can be carried by a number of wireless technologies, enabling fixed operators, MVNOs, and VoIP service providers to bypass existing cellular voice services, according to a new report, Wireless Voice Over IP: technical and commercial prospects, published by Analysys.
With VoIP already having an impact on fixed networks, its use over wireless technologies such as 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth, and broadband wireless access (BWA) could enable new players to enter the mobile voice market, so threatening the voice revenues of existing mobile network operators.
"For mobile operators that have invested heavily in 2G and 3G cellular networks there will ...