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Call costs 'taking a back seat to service conditions'

02/04/2009

The cost of making a call is "becoming secondary to the provision of services and content", according to an expert.

Chief executive officer of Telecommunications UK's Fraud Forum (TUFF) Jack Wraith MBE is of the opinion that in the future, greater merging of services means there must be "a marriage of convenience" between network operator and IP providers.

Mr Wraith went on to say that within the next five years, people will no longer be traditionally billed for making a call.

"The infrastructure will be used to deliver other services and products and it will be that which is where the return is," he commented.

As for the future of IP calling, the expert predicts that the technology community will "end up with a merging of the IP type providers and the traditional networks will provide the infrastructure".

According to data published by TeleGeography last month, cross-border telephone traffic grew by 14 per cent in 2007 and is estimated to have risen by around 12 per cent in 2008.

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