The internet is a mobile playground where packets stream from high towers, to and from LTE technology based antennas, pushing and pulling video, voice, images, text and data.
 It is a magnificent feat of computer centric hardware and software engineering!
AC-ISP (Area Code) and PI-ISP (Pure Internet)
As mentioned previously, fact is, the internet media services and features are currently delivered by two types of ISP… the big locked up “smart phone” ISP’s which are bounded by area codes, like Verizon, Rogers, Digicel, Cable and Wireless etc, and the other open device ISP’s which exist strictly on wide area network packet technology, with no area code restrictions at all.
Usually, the PI-ISP has provided fixed type services to homes, businesses, venues, and Wi-Fi hot spots by hard wire (xDSL) or Cable (DOCSYS).
The fixed targeted delivery of internet services in these technologies, does not compete with mobile telephony services.  The fixed services are usually charged as a separate bill from the service provider, and includes the rental or sale of a specific desk top device (router) which must be purchased or leased from that particular service provider.
Our TV bill, our Mobile Phone bill and our Internet bills are served to us as a “bundled” package from one provider or separately from more than one provider. Our mobile phone bill always comes from an AC-ISP since they are the only companies, having the technology to offer Area Code based mobile telephony. In the pure internet space. area codes are obsolete and not required at all.
Area code restricted providers have been the status quo solution for the past fifteen years or more.
In my experience, status quo never innovates, it just adds tons and tons of drag.
Marketing status quo services to increase profitability, is the moss which grows on technology innovations. The longer we can sell the old, while convincing customers they are buying the new, is a magnificent way to grow huge profits.  The best way to do that is to change the user devices, while hyping up the coolness of owning the “new” model, but keeping the network product and business plan, the same.
To me, innovation is like a balloon and as it continues to inflate, the status quo business models take on a state of embarrassing obsolescence, sliding down the far side on the bell curve of change; customers actually realize they are being dealt yesterday’s products using yesterday's business and price plans... Moore's Law and its continuing cost and capacity advantages are never passed on to the Area Code ISP's customers. Never even mentioned as a matter of fact.
In quantum terms, innovation is a wave… always moving forward, leaving status quo and old way thinking, as sinking particles in its wake.  The wave itself is a moving bell curve… and if you are not on the leading edge, "you are taking up too much space", while creatively and profitably delivering that which has already past  its best before date.
No doubt about it ... legacy technology companies have very creative marketing solutions. They put themselves forward as the owners of the Internet!
It is time to bring a new idea into the world (actually it isn’t that new).. I will call it MVoIP, meaning Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol).
Mobile VoIP (MVoIP)... from the Pure Internet (PI) ISP
We love competition in our networks to keep the innovation alive and ensuring a better product with more bang for the buck for our customers… (I say this with a tongue in cheek look on my face, since I think the current AC-ISP is not delivering the full advantage competition should, in mobile voice communications).
We seem to be stuck on the innovation of shiny devices, which usually deliver great promises through packaging and presentation of the physical goodies, yet the same old same old in the way we are billed. 
The current AC-ISP continues to bring charges to the fore, which erode our discretionary income options. If we travel with our phones to different area code areas, roaming fees based on distance and packets sent, can and do cause great stress while we are on the trip and while we are waiting for the bill once we get home. Many of us are forced to turn our “roaming data” option off to ensure we do not incur roaming charges which could be greater than the cost of the air ticket and hotel!
It gets crazy.
Our solution to help eliminate these nasty roaming charges is to find a “hotspot” and use our Wi-Fi internet connection to innovate around these area code companies billing machines. We can sit in the middle of a hotspot and engage our friends in a fb video call… screens wide open end to end… or we can look at our e-mail account and send text messages to those with present icons, and also those non-present. 
We can also launch our Skype or MagicJack App on our device and talk to our friends around the world, using VoIP technology - have a two hour conversation if we want; there is no AC-ISP billing machine in sight. Some AC-ISP’s hate this option of pocket book freedom, and since those hotspots usually connect to the AC-ISP DSL or DOCSYS wire and cable, they invoke things like DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) to see if a VoIP call has manifested from some home or hotspot user.  If it has, they will throttle back the bandwidth available for that connection to ensure as many packets as possible will be dropped, ruining the quality of the fb video call or the Voice over IP call for those cheeky users!
I propose we bring more competition to the network by allowing the end users to decide the platform they want to use, to video or voice call over distances, not only for the fixed home and hotspot user, but also for mobile users. It is time we offered mobile voice over Internet Protocol for everyone!
Let the user be the chooser!
The MVoIP Platform Details
First of all the new network platform must stand on its own, not using any assets of the AC-ISP network. This means the PI-ISP  platform will have its own access network like carrier grade Wi-Fi and/or for example, 2.5 GHz TD-LTE.  These protocols are not new and have been well soaked in active, commercial networks around the world.
The mobility part of this new proposal will be delivered using the same packet protocols and eNb tower platforms as currently being used by the AC-ISP in delivering mobile telephony.
LTE is the common platform modern network protocol of choice, and the PI-ISP will acquire licensed spectrum from the various national spectrum management authorities, and will follow the LTE road map - just like the AC-ISP's do.
The difference is, the architecture of the network will change.
Where AC-ISP’s have an Enhanced Packet Core (EPC), with Homing data bases using area codes and numbers stored on switches, intermixed with policy servers for billing and feature options, along with translation tables for roaming type revenue sharing, between the AC-ISP companies involved in the communication… the PI-ISP is strictly a packet switched network. EPC is included to provide hand off functionality, but LTE system designers could migrate that requirement as a local eNb function... handing off intra and inter sector as the mobile user drives from one sector to another.
The VoIP platforms, are scattered around the world and have no Area Code designation. They have a router ID which is part of the Internet Protocol and Transport Protocol fabric of the internet.
While each AC-ISP has its own home area code designations, based on the ITU numbering plan, the PI-ISP’s use the world wide convention, whether it be Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) or Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)… to provide locations of all gateway routers on the Internet.
MagicJack has its own gateway router addresses, Skype does too… and behind those gateway servers is the Voice over IP platforms which mimic the connection details of the plain old telephone network, enabling VoIP call originations and terminations on any type (AC-ISP or PI-ISP) connection to the end user.
Traditionally, PI-ISP’s wanting to become AC-ISP’s had to purchase a “soft switch” which emulated a telephone company central office. In my opinion, those days are long gone.
End users, using smart phones (via LTE SIM cards or Wi-Fi from Mi-Fi), lap tops, dongles, or Mi-Fi devices can connect to the VoIP platforms of their choice while driving down the road, walking on the beach, sitting in their office, or relaxing at home as if they were connected to the old fashioned AC-ISP type networks.
The PI-ISP network is Area Code Agnostic.
The diagram at the top of this post, provides a simplified picture view of the PI-ISP providing mobile Voice over IP service, nomadic Voice over IP service and Home Voice over IP service and Hot Spot services under one service provider.
Note the Root Access Point (RAP) in the diagram is using the Point to Multi Point Licensed LTE technology as back haul for the MAP's connected to each RAP.
To get further details of this strategy… please connect with me through LinkedIn or via email... ilenathen@ccs.bm  .
In the next blog I will bring MMoIP (Mobile Media over IP) into the mix. If you have a multi-media platform in your core... you can run those multi-media services over IP. No area code metrics on site or in sight.
Let’s innovate together.