Title : 
An Assessment of Fixed-Mobile Convergence
         
        
            Author : 
Waclawsky, J. ; Briley, Bruce
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) is introduced as an approach for converging wireless and wireline networks. Even though it has a number of appealing aspects, it also has significant technical, political and competitive problems.
         
        
            Keywords : 
mobile radio; radio networks; fixed-mobile convergence; wireless network; wireline network; Application software; Communications Society; Convergence; GSM; IP networks; Internet telephony; Mobile handsets; Radio control; USA Councils; Web and internet services;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications, 2007. ICC '07. IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Glasgow
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0353-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICC.2007.879