Convergence of wireless services

Summary form only given. Today's end users want access to their communications and entertainment services from multiple places such as home or office using different devices without separate accounts. Users want to be able to share contact lists as they access and share all types of content; voice, video and data. To offer converged, blended lifestyle services, service providers are providing bundling through network IP and value over IP. This talk focuses on the importance of blended lifestyle, converged services for operators and end-users, as well as the enablers of service convergence. In this talk, several key enabling technologies including IMS, VoIP, and other Bell Labs innovations will be discussed that will greatly enhance service providers capability to offer innovative blended lifestyle applications.