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Delivering converged services--whether voice, data and video or wireless/wireline--is the primary concern of Supercomm attendees surveyed by Motorola on Tuesday.

While the survey isn't scientific, Motorola representatives did talk with 188 attendees, 94% of whom were service providers.

"We wanted to know what was important to service providers and what their biggest obstacles are," said Tony Zona, general manager of Motorola's fiber-to-the-premises group. "We're excited that the results are in line with what Motorola was thinking. We found it's not about technology but the notion of converged services."

Fifty percent of those surveyed said converged services were a primary concern, followed by 22% who said remaining competitive concerns them most. About 17% cited operational expenses as a chief problem, and 11% said reduced revenue due to churn.

The most pressing issue related to their biggest concerns included: integrating next-generation services onto an existing platform (38%), time to market for new services (34%), operational complexities (19%) and the lack of a standards-based network (9%).

Just about three-fourths expect to provide advanced services--such as video-on-demand, HDTV and digital video recorder--in the future in order to succeed. An overwhelming number (97%) expect services of the future to operate between multiple networks and devices.

Interest in differing technologies was divided among FTTN/DSL (37%), wireless (34%), FTTH (24%) and cable (4%).