Lee Dryburgh put up the movie of my presentation on the future of interconnection. I gave this presentation last year at Ecomm '09 in Amsterdam. It covers topics like Calling Party Pays and Peering and Transit. What I set out to demonstrate was that it is very economically beneficial for networks to treat voice differently than data. This is because all networks benefit from the current Calling Party Pays interconnection scheme. A triple play ISP may see up to 10% of it's revenue and a significant part of its profit resulting from the fact that it has to 7.5 cents per minute to a mobile network. The lowering of mobile termination fees is therefore feared by many ISP's, because it negatively affects there turnover, even though most of the money just passes its bank account to go to the mobile networks. I have embedded both the movie and the presentation for your convenience.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Thursday, 29 October 2009
The Future of Interconnection, or why we continue to pay for Voice
My second presentation at Emerging Communications Europe 2009 (Ecomm2009). The outline is: One would expect that because of the rise of data we wouldn’t have to pay for voice anymore, this won’t happen because:
- With data overtaking voice even on mobile networks, one would expect that soon we don’t pay for voice anymore
- We accept paying by the minute because voice is highly valued and it is a familiar way of billing
- The way voice interconnection is paid for in Europe is the reason we are stuck with paying by the minute
- Only when the current interconnection model is removed will voice be ‘free’
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