The “Wireless VoIP: What Threat to Mobile Operators?” report provides a comprehensive analysis of wVoIP technological challenges, networks, handsets, software solutions, wVoIP commercial deployments, trials and growth scenarios for 2005-2010.

Key areas examined include:

Technologies and Technological issues

• The spread of voice over Wi-Fi in the business world, households and hotspots.
• The growing availability of a vast array of compatible handsets (WI-FI, dual mode, & WIMAX).
• The deployment of UMTS TDD networks and all-IP FDD networks driven by IMS.
• Flash-OFDM and iBurst technologies experiments and tests.

Player strategies

• Strategies for mobile carriers, both those with and without a 3G license: 3G rate plan strategies, regulatory strategies, controlling the handsets, and the complementary aspects of cellular-Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks
• Strategies for wireline carriers: MVNO agreements, mobile operator takeovers, creation of BWA networks, combined fixed broadband-Wi-Fi, convergent network deployment
• New entrant strategies: software publishers, MVNOs, value-added service providers.

Growth scenarios 2005-2010

• Changes in data rate plans (flat rates, unlimited offers)
• Impact on traffic: acceleration of fixed-mobile substitution; possibility of recuperating a portion of mobile traffic on the fixed network; global increase of voice traffic
• The challenges that lie ahead for voice and data MVNOs. Impact of regulation.
• The combined impact of these various factors on the European and American markets

The report also includes in-depth case studies on such key players as:

• ArrayComm
• AT&T
• Annatel
• Bell Canada
• Broadvoice
• BT
• Concourse Communications
• Flash Networks
• Flarion
• IDT Corporation
• Korea Telecom
• Kyocera Wireless / Boingo
• Net2Phone
• NTT DoCoMo
• Skype
• Towerstream
• US Wireless Online
• Verizon
• Vodafone
• Vonage