wireless08 - Taking VoIP on the Road

I heard a good talk from Marcus Birkl (Siemens) this morning. Some great statistics:

* 41% of employees operate away from their desks (Yankee Group);
* 33% of mobile calls originate within the enterprise's premises (Frost & Sullivan).

He talked about convenience causing more mobile than deskphone calls. This made me think that convenience leads naturally to wireless connectivity & unified communications on one device. In turn this means more convergence of services onto all singing & dancing hardware devices.

For voice, this probably means being reachable on a single corporate number, and using VoIP on the mobile phone (with gives a bonus of reducing roaming charges when abroad).

I'll keep looking for a decent VoIP client for my mobile then!