Some three months back, 4 big operators got together and put out a joint procurement RFP. They listed out their feature requirements for dual mode FMC devices from entry level, to mid-tier to smartphones, and submitted RFP to 30 different handset ecosystem companies, which includes platform suppliers as well as handset suppliers.
What the market is seeing is a backlash of that. There are a lot of dual mode FMC handsets in the market and a lot coming but all of those projects were started before this RFP came out. There will probably be 10 commercially available dual mode handsets by the end of this year and easily 20 by the end of next year.
Cisco is apparently selling a lot of Nokia E61 dual-mode phones, and some of them along with Cisco’s FMC server product. Ciscso’s 7291 VoWLAN phone itself has seen a significant jump in terms of shipment over last few months.
