Market Still Being Reluctant Towards Migrating to IMS-based Platform

A recent poll by Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support Software (OSS), found that operators around the globe have still not fully decided on a migration path to IMS. The poll, conducted at Comptel’s annual User Group forum, showed that while a third (32%) of operators worldwide had decided to move towards an IMS architecture within next 2 years, another 32% had made no plans with regards to adoption.

In my opinion,

IMS sounds like the Holy Grail for integrating land line and mobile networks, which everybody already agreed that most likely it will  be based on TCP/IP and UDP/IP stack. The adoption itself is no such an easy task, especially for already operating telecom operator.

My experience working with some telecom operators in Indonesia and Malaysia has shown that it is not that easy to implement a new paradigm in infrastructure for already operating telecom operator. Their main concern normally would be to keep the subscribers services. Migrating the system is not first priority. Maintaining current subscribers are first priority.

For newly launched telecom operators, it would very well make sense to adopt the latest technology straight away because there would be less entry barrier to adopt the new technology.  As it is common in communications, electronics and telecommunications, the latest technology usually is much cheaper than the older ones.