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3G mobile operators have little incentive to offer VoIP.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)(Brief Article)

3G mobile operators have little incentive to offer VoIP services as W-CDMA offers the cost and capacity attributes to support fixed-mobile substitution. Wireless VoIP presents fixed operators, MVNOs and VoIP providers with opportunities to disrupt the mobile voice market.

Mobile operators that offer unlimited-use data tariffs are vulnerable to third-party VoIP services carried via 3G data.

VoIP carried on Bluetooth or WLAN could help fixed operators reverse fixed-mobile substitution trends. VoIP could be used to strengthen the business case for BWA technologi

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