Fixed Mobile Convergence

[December 19, 2008] BRIEF: Tucson police: I-10 reopens at Grant Road Dec 19, 2008 (The Arizona Daily Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A suspicious item that prompted the closure of Grant Road near Interstate 10 for three hours was determined not to be a threat, police said. A bicyclist riding in the area spotted something wrapped in duct tape with wires and alerted police, said Officer Linda Galindo, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman. Police responded along with the bomb unit and a robot, she said. At that time they shut down both directions of travel on Grant in the area until the situation was deemed safe, she said. By 12:30 the roadway was re-opened. To see more of The Arizona Daily Star, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.azstarnet.com. Copyright (c) 2008, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back to the Fixed Mobile Convergence Community's Homepage ]

encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions.

BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise voice features whether at their desks or on the go*. BlackBerry MVS encompasses BlackBerry® MVS Client software for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry MVS Services of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite.

With BlackBerry MVS, BlackBerry smartphone users can access enterprise desk phone options directly from the menu interface of the BlackBerry phone application, while at the same time securely authenticating to the organization’s enterprise telephony system (PBX). BlackBerry MVS also gives IT administrators the control to set voice policies on the BlackBerry smartphone, so that inbound and outbound calls use the enterprise line. This allows for all mobile calls to be logged or recorded for compliance with regulatory or corporate standards.
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