Moderate Traction for Dual-Mode Services in Business

Use of fixed-mobile convergence, in the form of transparent and seamless hand-off of active voice calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks using a dual-mode phone, has gained moderate traction so far, says David Lemelin, In-Stat (News - Alert) analyst.

 

Some 19 percent of businesses with office Wi-Fi use some form of voice-over-Wi-Fi application or service, says Lemelin.

 

If one roughly assumes that 30 percent of business locations now have Wi-Fi access, that implies six percent of business locations now use dual-mode phones with the ability to hand off to the public networks.

 

Business FMC handset connections will jump from 5.8 million in 2009 to 31 million by 2013, In-Stat predicts.