FMC

I just read in The Economist that the next big thing in telephone technology is Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). Basically you use your cell phone as it is when you are outdoors, but when u get home within range of your home base, it switches to a fixed line using broadband lines, while u get to use yr cell phone and the same number. How cool is that! And when your friends visit your house, they get to enjoy using the fixed line too, but they will be billed individually at fixed line rates!

I wonder when this service is going to come up in Singapore? I read that 3G was a total flop in Europe a few years back, yet they still went ahead and implemented it here, but only recently. And as far as I know, it isn't doing very well here.... Maybe the operators don't have enough capital to venture into FMC after all this, who knows? Or maybe there'll be new players in the market.....