So says Thomas Nolle in a recent column. He points out that “regulatory arbitrage” seem to the main motivator. This arbitrage condition will be eliminated once FCC makes its decision known, whatever the decision – either TDM service providers will artificially convert their traffic to IP to take the same advantage or VoIP carriers also have to pay the same termination charges. He also agrees that there is no money in completing on-net calls. So what is a company like AT&Tdo now? Interestingly, he thinks that AT&T can encourage its customers to migrate to multimedia IP calling and earn revenue. What is not clear is why multimedia calling will generate revenue? If VoIP is truly end-to-end, then why multimedia sessions are not? A session is multimedia because the end terminals are correlating multiple streams; the network at the IP layer is not privy to this fact. So the hunt for the business prospect in IP world continues.
Posted by aswath at January 19, 2004 11:26 PM