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Mobile VoIP is a hot topic these days. Users love it, VoIP companies love it, but current mobile phone providers hate it.
It’s time to figure it out, though, since consumers are clamoring for it: seven out of 10 businesses expect to use mobile VoIP over the next two years, new research says. A study by Coleman Parkes Research shows that mobile phone users use increasingly more data applications on the go.
It’s management that’s the issue. Mformation Technologies ordered research done that showed that information execs want better management of mobile devices to ensure the most productivity.
“While IT departments have the solutions in place to manage business applications that reside on laptops or PCs, doing this on mobile handsets presents a far greater challenge,” said Matt Bancroft, vice president at Mformation. “For example, they will need to start thinking about how to deploy applications, patches and updates over the air.”
Meanwhile, breakthroughs continue in the form of new product announcements as well as increasing WiFi availability through increasing hotspots.
Mobile VoIP in the United States trails most other countries due to U.S. carriers’ reluctance.
In the United Kingdom, however, use of mobile VoIP is expected to increase dramatically.
Currently most used by management, studies show that mobile VoIP is only used by about 27 percent of non-management workers. 70 percent expect their companies to increase use of the service in the next two years.
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So I see that currently there are two “blocks” for a widespread adoption and deployment of mobile VOIP: one is the IT factor that you mentioned: companies who want to deploy mobile VOIP solution needs to find something that will facilitate the easy and convenient application management (for these VOIP apps deployment), But in my opinion the second and more critical issue is that of the Mobile Carriers in the US who are reluctantly holding on to their traditional way of doing things and preventing mobile VOIP (in fact, VOIP in general). Im hoping that in the end the carriers will fold to users’ and company’s demand for mobile voip.