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Or will access providers eschew roaming and collaboration in favor of providing easy-to-buy and easy-to-use short-term access deals for visitors to their neighborhoods. Then they don’t have to share anything. Or perhaps we will see the emergence of resellers – virtual operators – who will negotiate with multiple bit-carriers to present their customers with an integrated global access package priced to reflect the actual overhead involved in providing real converged access.
Perhaps none of this will happen, and access convergence will always be just around the corner, while we still pay extra, under protest, whenever we’re not at our desks. Perhaps it will happen, but only when governments provide a nudge in that direction.
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No service provider yet offers sensibly-priced multi-device access everywhere. |
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It will be interesting to see where the new dynamic of convergence leads us. A view is forming of the sort of information world users would like: a converged services platform with some kind of converged access business model that allows everyone to use those services wherever they are and whenever they want. Is there a business model that will make that vision something that the bit-carriers want just as much as their customers do?
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