“Fixed Mobile Convergence” means “the removal of distinctions between fixed and wireless telecommunication networks that create seamless services using a combination of fixed broadband and local access wireless technologies.“ It’s one of the trends behind the ATT-Bell South- SBC- Cingular merger.
I suppose we see it most in bundling of services as consumers but it reflects a behind the scenes revolution.
Right now most of the advances in the field are for residential services. If that trend continues, maybe small work at home businesses will benefit first?
I found their estimates of the growth of mobile workers (telecommuters) the most interesting of course.
An Infotrack Study found that
By 2010, the majority of the firms surveyed in the United States and Canada predict having a mobile workforce of between 26 percent and 50 percent. InfoTrack defines a “mobile worker” as an employee who is not tied to a single physical location (such as a desk) or who is required to regularly move about, spending 20 percent or more of his or her work week away from the primary workplace — roaming in-building or on campus, or traveling locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.
Telecommuter growth figures from this report on Infotrak press release
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