VoIP is the 'killer' application to drive wireless development

8 September 2004 Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Market research firm, West Technology Research Solutions, recently released a comprehensive wireless component market report that compares and explains the relationships between technologies and protocols including UWB, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, ZigBee, 3G, 4G, WiMax, 802.11a through g, and 802.20.

Says Kirsten West, one of the principals of WTRS: "WiMax is seen by many as an indicator and also a driver in the market for VoIP applications. We are now at the intersection of wireless rapid data transfer and communication, realising the final link, the keystone: voice as data, voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP. In the near future, invariably and inevitably, VoIP will replace switched telephony, ie, it will eliminate and replace a complete stratum of our infrastructure that has served us so well for over 100 years: the telephone.

"To be frank about this, we simply will no longer have need of it. Now that the significance of VoIP and its threat to telecommunications is becoming clear, the genie is out of the bottle, and the proverbial horse has left the barn," adds West. "The FCC wants to keep the decision in the market place, that sphere of the survival of the fittest. Such an outcome would give the advantage to cable operators, the likes of AT&T, but also the 'little guy', the average person looking to reduce and finally eliminate the barriers of regulations and fees.

"The losers would be the telecommunication market and industry and that incredibly layered maze of service providers and hangers-on: federal, state, local taxes, fees, and their bureaucratic infrastructure".

West estimates that, given a 4% global GDP growth rate, annual shipments for WiMAX chipsets will exceed $2,2 bn in 2008.

www.westtechresearch.com

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