Ericsson: Voice as commodity

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

SINGAPORE–From a technology perspective, talk is cheap already — if you take communications to mean literally voice alone.

Unified communications, as a concept, basically means more than just voice, but spicing it up with other means like instant messaging or other PC-based applications like Skype. As a concept, though, it would depend on how which vendor is selling it — Microsoft sees it from a software perspective, HP more on integration of these various applications.

Ericsson, meanwhile, is taking it from a mobility perspective. Or in simpler terms, UC makes sense if you can do all these things outside of the office.

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