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Monday, August 01, 2005
Analysys warns about deploying IMS
A confusing thing with the telecom world is that existing standards are never enough (even if they actually are). See e.g. MMS that mimics e-mail, WAP that mimics HTTP/HTML etc. The same goes for IMS. The difference here is that it's based on SIP that's already somewhat established for digital corporate telephony (even though H.323 leads that market, and then of course you have Skype...). They wouldn't have to wait for IMS if they instead acquired existing SIP infrastructure (not from Ericsson primarily, but from Cisco, Nortel etc) and forced manufacturers to implement VoIP over SIP etc. The possible issue is interoperability, as each operator would go its own way in terms of application dialects. OMA is the vehicle to coordinate that. Yet, at the moment IMS is clearly a market for the infrastructure providers, and they of course do everything they can to convince operators they should deploy IMS.
The market seems to "self heal" in the sense that in at least US there's more talk about e-mail and full web browsing via HTML, than MMS and WAP. That's a very good sign.
There are yet no killer apps in sight, so the operators continues to take big financial and time-window risks on things possibly few will use, similar to MMS and WAP...
A new Analysys report predicted that most mobile operators will implement an IMS system within five years, but its authors warned that many of the services they hope to support, such as mobile voice over IP and instant video messaging, might be better served by proprietary solutions in the short term.
textually.org: IMS warning to mobile operators
The market seems to "self heal" in the sense that in at least US there's more talk about e-mail and full web browsing via HTML, than MMS and WAP. That's a very good sign.
There are yet no killer apps in sight, so the operators continues to take big financial and time-window risks on things possibly few will use, similar to MMS and WAP...
A new Analysys report predicted that most mobile operators will implement an IMS system within five years, but its authors warned that many of the services they hope to support, such as mobile voice over IP and instant video messaging, might be better served by proprietary solutions in the short term.
textually.org: IMS warning to mobile operators
