content delivery network

Verizon and AT&T planning FMC transitions this year

Verizon has discontinued its Voicewing VoIP service, a move that some find contradictory to the earlier introduction of “the Hub” a VoIP phone, and Verizon’s femtocell announcement made this week. It’s actually the first logical step in the Verizon evolution.

Voicewing’s features and price points were wrong for the new service, and Verizon is getting out from under it now, as it prepares for the new positioning. We expect both AT&T and Verizon to launch similar “carrot” VoIP services to draw users from TDM as the end-of-life problem for switches approaches.

The big move will be the FMC transition, which both companies expect to make by mid-year, possibly as early as March. This shift will create significant changes for the market, but the biggest changes relating to content delivery network(CDN) and cloud deployment are yet to come.