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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Lucent claims HSUPA is needed for VoIP
I claim it's definitely not, provided the air-time cost becomes sensible on UMTS.
Quote: Increaseing (sic!) uplink speeds (read: HSUPA or EV-DO) is the key for VoIP on cell phones, according to Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere
That's in my opinion a load of B.S. UMTS or cdma2000 1X are quite enough. GPRS admittedly is not. Note that we talk voice-over-IP, not video.
Is it just a way to convince operators to make another network upgrade?
What Lucent and operators don't seem to understand (or don't want to understand) is that traditional operators will not drive the VoIP development. If operators wait for the bleeding edge in technology, then third party service providers will just move in.
Operators can block VoIP traffic altogether or have higher fees on multimedia streaming (over RTP), but I don't think regulators would approve of that.
Daily Wireless - VoIP On Cell Phones - Wait a Year
Quote: Increaseing (sic!) uplink speeds (read: HSUPA or EV-DO) is the key for VoIP on cell phones, according to Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere
That's in my opinion a load of B.S. UMTS or cdma2000 1X are quite enough. GPRS admittedly is not. Note that we talk voice-over-IP, not video.
Is it just a way to convince operators to make another network upgrade?
What Lucent and operators don't seem to understand (or don't want to understand) is that traditional operators will not drive the VoIP development. If operators wait for the bleeding edge in technology, then third party service providers will just move in.
Operators can block VoIP traffic altogether or have higher fees on multimedia streaming (over RTP), but I don't think regulators would approve of that.
Daily Wireless - VoIP On Cell Phones - Wait a Year
