Why Mobile Operators should not Deploy VoIP on the Handset
June 13, 2012
For 13 years now, the standards group known as 3GPP has been hard at work trying to define one very large, complex SIP-based replacement for the mobile handset and the PSTN. This beast of a system is known as IMS and it defines not only the core network functions, but also the use of a SIP client on the mobile handset. But what mobile operator would dare put SIP on the handset? That is just asking for trouble.