Convergence is a dirty word?!

I usually give an involuntary sharp exhalation when hearing the word convergence in the telecom industry, however this announcement made me wake up a little.
This little piece of software allows the separation of service from connectivity, at least partially.
Essentially it does nothing more than Skype could do, but it integrates the mobile access into the picture and maintains presence information for routing an inward call to the user (over mobile or wifi network).
Thus I could have my voice service over whatever connectivity was available to the device.
If some forward-looking mobile operator picks up the significance of this, we could start to see this take off.
As I've said many times, it's the identity and presence of the customer that is of value, not the calls they make. If the customer can be on many different networks, who controls authenticaton? who manages presence? It just happens that they are charged for voice service now, in the future the money will be in presence.

I'm currently writing more on presence, but it's in draft and may be there for some time!