Barriers to the adoption of VOIP in mobile phones

Author: audio_visual  //  Category: Mobile Phones

VOIP in mobile phones will, ultimately, substitute other protocols. A world market for mobile voice worth about 700 billion $ is at risk. Nonetheless, it results complex to calculate when this could occur given the different obstacles and barriers VOIP may have to rise above. Usual mobile operators are apprehensive about avoiding or holding back this modification from taking place.

End to end cell phone Voice over IP softwares consent to two or more users to make a voice conversation directly, without the need to go through a usual voice service at any time. They include software such as: Fring, Gizmo5, Google Talk, JAJAH, Jaxtr, Mig33, Nimbuzz, Skype, Talkety, Talkonaut, Truphone, Vopium, Yackie Mobile, Yahoo! Voice and Yeigo. These applications work via WIFI as well as via mobile network protocols such as GPRS, UMTS, among others. They form the main threat to usual mobile voice carriers.

Traditional mobile operators address this danger by different measures including avoidance, pressure, lobbying etc..

1.    Mobile operators often bring to a halt VOIP traffic on their own GPRS, UMTS, and other networks.
2.    Mobile operators often leave out VOIP numbers in the flat plans or else they inhibit to reach them.
3.    Over and over again, mobile operators pressure handset vendors not to release WIFI enabled handsets.
4.    Habitually, mobile operators pressure handset vendors to disable any mobile VoIP access for third party developers in their mobile application developer platforms.
5.    All providers of OS for mobile handsets are considering VOIP a prohibited thing.

The constraints imposed by conventional mobile operators may prove to be an opportunity for beginners to the mobile telephony market. WIFI may become the most used protocol for VOIP. Any provider or consortium of providers giving plentyample WIFI coverage, especially in major city areas, may have an plus in this new VOIP market. The source of income may transfer from the voice service itself to assured QoS and/or coverage.

Also, at a time when traditional handheld Operating Systems, such as Synbian, Windows Mobile and Leopard, pay too much of a tribute to the war on VOIP, other Operating Systems may take over the room they left unsafe, such as Linux in several of its versions.

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