MFC, Is there really the demand?

My Comments about an article in "mobile Communications International" magazine
Dec/Jan 04/05
Pages 26,27

Article title: One Vision.
By Sean Jackson

He describe the current situation of the MFC from two perspectives. One is the operators and vendors perspective and the other is the customer´s perspective.
Until now the customer prefer to have only one bill of all the communication services they use, irrespective the device and network. The operators and vendors say that is what the customers are demanding.
He mentions a paper produced by wireless consultant Northstream, that say the fixed-mobile substitution is irreversible caused by three factors:

Increasingly mobile lifestyles.
Decreasing mobile voice services
Increased interest of service providers for the development of FMC

He describes many technologies some operators are implementing now all around the world, however he conclude the real driver behind FMC is consumer demand and not technology.

His conclusion is: " There isn´t a single application in the world that truly needs mobility. Voice doesn´t need mobile to work. It worked for 80 years without it-but now it´s easier. So what mobile IP aims to achieve for the end user is to make it much easier for them to connect to the network. They just want to fire up the laptop or other device and connect."

Based on this comment, I conclude that for this project we have to search some value the customer could obtain from the FMC, the technology to implementing it will be there.

Luis.