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VOIP Tops Data for Metro WiFi |
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Written by Kory Mohr
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Wednesday, 08 June 2005 |
Amended from Unstrung:
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- 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.
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