Hi JeffOne additional thing to consider in an all-IP world is the interaction of the network with the end-device (and also maybe The Cloud) in determining various of the things you list.This is a fundamental difference to Tier-1 ISPs, for which (most...

Hi MarkThanks for the link.To an extent, heterogeneity has crept in ever since SMS became popular - the user interface & experience is very different on various brands of devices. I remember an operator standing at a conference in 2005, saying that S...

Some more thoughts on all of this:1) Steve's initial assumption that the majority of data traffic from wireless devices will be in the home/office is at the mercy of future application developers, and to a lesser degree device innovators. For example...

tredman wrote:My point of view is that Google still relies on the facilities-based SP (FSP) to deliver the QoS.  In this case, they are getting QoS because they are using circuit-switched facilities to deliver the call (if my understanding of the Goo...

knagesh wrote:How gracefully can we accomplish this coexistence and migration? Supporting interfaces to integrate with IMS core for traditional voice, SMS services, and looking at open, interoperable framework using web services will likely yield the...