Vodafone's mobile strategy creaks under FMC pressure

摘要

A little-noticed partnership announced earlier this month by Vodafone Germany and its sister fixed operator Arcor suggests that the mobile operator is hedging its bets on fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), despite Vodafone Group's insistence on a mobile-only strategy. From this summer, Arcor will offer an FMC service bundling dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi phones, flat-rate voice-over-Wi-Fi tariffs and DSL with SIM cards and mobile tariffs from Vodafone.