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“Statistics show that up to 80% of corporate employees aremobile, in or around their main office building. They are what werefer to as the ‘corridor warrior’,” says JustinSpratt, head of FMC services at IS.
“Many GSM calls start and end inside the same building duesometimes to laziness. or convenience. Cost-wise, for a corporate,it’s a totally unnecessary expense.
"Corporates are spending up to 30% of their call costs fromfixed line to cellular. Companies are also frequently subsidisingGSM bills and many calls made by employees as they are made from acell phone to numbers within the campus or to a fixed line, whereusing a fixed line to make this call would be far more costeffective. Employees use the most convenient and easy methods athand.”
FMC from IS will initially address seamless switching between GSMand wireless connections.
Advancements in wireless technology with meshed wireless networksmakes this a simple reality at relatively low capital costs.
“Imagine receiving a call from colleagues on your cell phonewithout using the GSM network at all. Or, in a wireless area,making a call from your cell phone which uses your corporate PABXto terminate the call over fixed line - thus using cheaper leastcost routing (LCR) - or back wirelessly to another colleague who isactually on campus,” says Spratt. “The cost savings tothe company are significant.”
The technology requires handsets which support wirelessconnectivity, interfaces into a VoIP network and a wirelessconnection.
“Most handsets these days have built in wireless, corporatehave wireless networks, and with the growth of clients using VoIPand IS VoIS (Voice over IS) community, we will have the ability tomake a difference to corporates telephony bills in a very realway,” says Spratt.
“Add roaming to our country wide hotspots available in morethan 300 locations around the country and we have a good startingnetwork, especially since around 70% of all calls emanate frominside buildings, home or work, or wireless areas.
“The FMC services can also be expanded to locations such ashotspots as well as wireless networks at home, or through SIPclients on users' desktops.
"The initial wireless/GSM handoff is really just the tip ofthe iceberg, with PABX functionality and consumer services, singlenumber integration and presence awareness for multiple numbersbeing only small leaps from the initial offerings.
"IS plans to launch FMC services within the next couple monthsas proof of concept to corporate clients. We expect this to be alarge growth space and something corporate and consumers alike willbe watching with eagerness,” Spratt adds.