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Fixed Mobile Convergence: Brand New Breed of Cordless Phones

Japan’s Jupiter Telecommunications will be beginning trials this October for Fixed mobile convergence (FMC). This new telephone service, if successful their customers will need only one number for both their mobile and landline at home. With FMC an existing mobile phone serves as an extension of the traditional landline by utilizing an internal wi-fi local area network to transmit a landline telephone signal. The mobile unit will act as a cordless phone for the landline.

While the trial is intended for Japan only at this time, the FMC results may well pave the way for more phones of a similar breed, and not just in Japan; just as BT’s Fusion has inspired changes in the United Kingdom.

The trial environment will be created at Jupiter Telecommunication utilizing a FMC-compatible SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) application server fully adapted to the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) framework created by US manufacturing company, Longboard.