[Serdev] contribution: SER module implementing Path extension(RFC3327)

[Juha Heinanen]

Greger V. Teigre writes:

 > In the end, the customer will vote: 
 > a few expensive mobile (IMS) based services or cheap Internet-based
 > services integrated with all the other services you are used to? I
 > think it all boils down to who will give the customer the best user
 > experience?

sure and that is why i don't see any need to invest in ims.

 >     Here in Norway, you can get 3G Internet access at a flat monthly price, 
 > bring your Symbian SIP softphone and you're online. The same goes for any 
 > other TCP/IP based service...

you are lucky.  perhaps i need to move 30 km to that side of the border.
send me email privately and tell which operator is that.

what i'm afraid is that many mobile operators will favor their own ims
based services by charging lost of money for pure ip access.  in
finland, for example, most operators charge eur 18 for 100 MB/month and
if you go above that, the price skyrockets.  things may change when we
get an all ip mobile service running at 450 mhz band by the end of the
year.

 > IMHO, Dragos' and Fermín' efforts will only strengthen SER's position. I 
 > cannot see any risk that SER will be dragged into IMS yet.

i don't worry about ser's position.  i'm worried about the fate of open
internet.  people all over the world try all the time hard to kill open
internet and make it a walled garden.  ims is one of their building
blocks.

-- juha