Talking to each other is steadily becoming a smaller part of our total communications output.  But what does this mean for the business of arranging telephone calls? Does the call remain as it is? Transmogrify into something else? Or eventually just disappear?  Jeremy Green of research firm Ovum, talks to Martyn Warwick about his new report on the Future of Voice and why operators aren't doing more to add value when news of the 'death of voice' has clearly been exaggerated.

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The Future

In the future voice will be seen as a function, not a service.  The value is in the larger integrated application and then the question behind that change is 'who pays?' Users or third parties.

Why do people make phone-calls? What other ways may they want to voice communicate at a distance? TelecomTV asks and answers some fundamentals in 'Explanations'. 

Participants: Martin Geddes www.martingeddes.com/; Dean Bubley http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/

Find out more about Martin and Dean's Voice Masterclass at www.futureofcomms.com/

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The Present

We still assume we use phone calls as the primary means of communication, but why are we calling smartphones 'terminals'?   Intelligence and value has already migrated to the end device. Perhaps things have moved on and the industry hasn't quite caught up?

Why do people make phone-calls? What other ways may they want to voice communicate at a distance? TelecomTV asks and answers some fundamentals in 'Explanations'. 

Participants: Martin Geddes www.martingeddes.com/; Dean Bubley http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/

Find out more about Martin and Dean's Voice Masterclass at www.futureofcomms.com/

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Why do people make phone-calls? What other ways may they want to voice communicate at a distance? TelecomTV asks and answers some fundamentals in the first in a new series of video 'Explanations'.  First installment: Voice.

Participants: Martin Geddes www.martingeddes.com/; Dean Bubley http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/

Find out more about Martin and Dean's Voice Masterclass at www.futureofcomms.com/

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The Ministry of Education in San Juan, Argentina, is a government agency responsible for creating and executing policies for education excellence. The Ministry designs equitable and innovative educational programs for pre-school, primary, secondary and higher education levels. Their aim is to ensure a quality education system that contributes to the integral training of people and development of the province by formulating and implementing policies, standards and sectoral regulation.

NEC delivered a secure Cloud solution to integrate and optimize information management for the Ministry's education system. Utilizing desktop virtualization and IP telephony, this solution improves the efficiency of managing the administrative and academic processes within the educational institutions. It also provides users quick and easy access to Internet, email, file sharing via Web portals, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony service.

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