AT&T eradicates the Unlimited Data Plan

AT&T announced Wednesday that it will establish offering metered data plans for mobile device users rather than a $30 all-you-can-use monthly plan. For people who utilize less than 200 megabytes of data a month, the price of the new plan is effectively cut in half.

AT&T said in a press release that 65 percent of AT&T smartphone customers utilize less than 200 MB of data per month on average. If DataPlus users go over the allotted 200 megabytes in a single month they will have the option to purchase an extra 200 megabytes for another $15.

Although the $30-a-month unlimited data plan will be eradicated, existing AT&T customers will have the option to be grandfathered in to their existing monthly charge.

IPad users will be affected by the service changes also. AT&T said that new iPad customers will have the choice to purchase a $25 monthly plan for access to 2 gigabytes of data. This will replace the $29.99 unlimited access option at present offered for the iPad.

The service changes will go into effect on June 7 with the predictable release of the iPhone’s new operating system, iPhone OS4.

VoIP subscriptions top the 100 million mark

The number of VoIP subscriptions worldwide peaked 100 million for the first time late last year, according to research house Point Topic, representing 15% development over the first three calendar quarters of 2009.

The figures also showed that in terms of entire subscribers, the UK still had some catching up to do, beaten by the other six G7 economies, as well as China and South Korea. While in terms of whole subscribers, the US was out in front, but proportionally, the French came in top with 38% of all fixed lines delivered over IP phones.

Point Topic senior analyst John Bosnell said that "an enthusiastic set of suppliers, cost effective bundles, suitable regulations and a developing infrastructure," had promoted the French VoIP market.

Bosnell suggested that these lessons could be applied to other markets, including the UK, to speed up adoption.

Softclient services such as those offered by Skype were not included in the study, but are also seeing major growth. Skype logged 27.7 billion PC to PC minutes in Q3, in addition to 3.1 billion minutes between PCs and conventional phones.

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Unlike Skype, a New iPhone App Makes VoIP Calls Over 3G

Peter Sisson, the founder and chief executive officer of Toktumi, a San Francisco-based VoIP startup, is excited. He was jumping with happiness when I spoke with him earlier today. Why? Because Apple just accepted the newest version (2.0) of his company’s mobile VoIP app, Line2. The app, which costs 99 cents, permits you to call and receive phone calls over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.

What Toktumi has done is make a back end similar to that of Google Voice -but unlike Google, it's gotten Apple's blessing. It's one of the more absolute mobile VoIP apps currently available for download; I particularly like the fact that it permits you to receive calls straight to your mobile phone over a cellular network even if you don’t have 3G or Wi-Fi coverage.

It comes with its individual features such as conference calling, call waiting, call transfer and even voice mails - in other words, the service is similar to a virtual second line on your phone. The service costs $14.95 a month for unlimited calls in the Canada and U.S.

Toktumi, which launched at DEMO 2008, has had to traverse a hard path to get to where it is today, and Sisson is understandably excited about the kind of exposure the authorization from Apple of its app will bring. Sisson, a veteran of the VoIP business, sold his previous company, Teleo, to Microsoft.

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Proposed Next-Gen Networks' VoIP Support has Limits

Proposed next-generation networks, superb as they may be in so many ways, still do have boundaries in their ability to support VoIP over their data-centric IP networks.

Even though data use is increasing, and data traffic is beginning to crush the carriers’ networks, voice will persist to be the killer app. This signifies that what everybody's going to want are systems that allow high-quality voice experiences.

Recent numbers we've seen floating past the office window here say that voice revenues will still represent almost 70 % of overall mobile revenues by 2014. So it's an concern that needs attention.

In a present interview TMC's (News–Alert) CEO Rich Tehrani did with Payam Maveddat (News-Alert),vice president, product management, Mavenir Systems, Tehrani said, "We hear more and more about high-definition voice features in IP communications products and services. What is going to force wideband audio and HD VoIP into the mainstream market? How long will it take?"

Maaveddat replied that from the wireless angle, "wideband codecs will become prominent primarily in order to get the voice quality to a advanced level as mobile devices become more widely use for all voice applications such as audio conferencing. The challenge stays in radio access as how fast the carriers will incorporate these codecs in the core of their network and whether this transition is economical or not. It will occur much sooner in the fixed VoIP application. It will be at least 3 to 5 more years."

And industry observer Stacey Higginbotham also recently wrote that "Voice over Internet Protocol penetration among U.S. businesses will increase rapidly over the subsequent years, reaching 79 percent by 2013, compared to 42 percent at the cease of 2009, according to research out today from analyst firmIn-Stat ( News-Alert). At this point I surprise what market demographic represents the last stand for legacy circuit switched voice. Will it be consumer landlines or will it be mobile voice over 3G networks?"
It's an open end question. Higginbotham notes that ‘current telephone networks are steadily being phased out as the world moves to IP communications. At present in the U.S. only 78 % of consumer homes have a landline and only 22 percent rely on them exclusively.’

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