Comments on: Nokia Has Doubts About UMA

By: Bear

Bear — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:44:43 +0000

You people must be being paid to post negative comments about UMA/GAN; T-mobile is setting up a business UMA package for areas in the office that do not get good cell tower signal, you are wrong, or you work for the Nokia President what you are saying is not realistic UMA is very popular right now evidently you need to go read some blogs about the matter and get better informed.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:33:19 +0000

If this line of thought is continued I will stop being a buyer of Nokia products Nokia Corp needs to provide more UMA apps for their smart phones and UMA phones, or I will no longer support Nokia as a consumer of Nokia products. Droid is starting to sound good!

By: Kineto Gets $15.5M for Femtocell Push | Semantic Web Reviews

Kineto Gets $15.5M for Femtocell Push | Semantic Web Reviews — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:37:48 +0000

[...] Kineto Wireless is like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going. Today the Milpitas, Calif.-based startup said it has raised $15.5 million in additional capital. The round, which included funding from Motorola as part of a broader commercial relationship with the handset maker’s home and networks mobility business, also involved Kineto’s existing investors Oak Investment Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock, Seapoint Ventures and InterDigital. An earlier investment from NEC will also tie in with this round. Kineto will use the funding to keep pushing its UMA technology beyond dual-mode handsets and work on a new technology for femtocells. [...]

By: Kineto Gets $15.5M for Femtocell Push - GigaOM

Kineto Gets $15.5M for Femtocell Push - GigaOM — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:54:48 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 9:54 AM PT Comments (0) Kineto Wireless is like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going. Today the Milpitas, Calif.-based startup said it has raised $15.5 million in additional capital. The round, which included funding from Motorola as part of a broader commercial relationship with the handset maker’s home and networks mobility business, also involved Kineto’s existing investors Oak Investment Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock, Seapoint Ventures and InterDigital. An earlier investment from NEC will also tie in with this round. Kineto will use the funding to keep pushing its UMA technology beyond dual-mode handsets and work on a new technology for femtocells. [...]

By: Market update for week of 7 Apr 2008 « 3G In The Home

Market update for week of 7 Apr 2008 « 3G In The Home — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:23:25 +0000

[...] clearly believes in the future of UMA, but with the leading dual mode handset vendor saying recently that it might not build any more UMA phones, I wonder if things are a bit less certain than [...]

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:52:30 +0000

Well the iPhone seems to be doing quite well with WiFi. Is it possible that WiFi on capable handsets should be used for data services instead of voice. Comments??

By: Market update for week of 25 Feb 2008 « 3G In The Home

Market update for week of 25 Feb 2008 « 3G In The Home — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:45:59 +0000

[...] Nokia doubts UMA [...]

By: Robert Welbourn

Robert Welbourn — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:09 +0000

Let's face it, Voice over WiFi is a bust. WiFi is power-hungry, susceptible to interference and is poor at hand-offs. If you want wireless connectivity, why not simply use what everyone already has -- the cellphone network?

In my present workplace, most people communicate via a combination of IM and mobile phone; landlines are mainly used for outgoing calls to save on mobile minutes. While this fits in with people's lifestyles, it does emphasize the disconnect between the wireless carrier's services and those that are owned by the enterprise -- two numbers, two voicemail inboxes, and no integration between the two.

My recipe for FMC: picocells at the enterprise premises, trunked back to the wireless carrier's network, with a signaling link from the carrier to the enterprise's IP PBX. In this way users of the corporate PBX have a wide choice in handsets, they get better signal strength while on premises, and a break in calling rates while using the picocell. Further, they can set up a corporate number that is an alias for their mobile number, with a unified inbox, and click-to-call dialing from their favorite IM software -- and can even provide presence information based on their location ("in the office"/"out of the office").

Heck, the cellphone company could even become a hosted IP PBX/Unified Communications provider.

Rob

By: Shah Ullah

Shah Ullah — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:28:31 +0000

Ditto on what Jahangir said.

I think its also important to note that if carriers really start to open up their platforms, several startups will probably build applications that will that will use FMC. I can see larger companies doing the same. Wouldn’t be surprising to see Microsoft/Google incorporating interesting FMC angles into TellMe/Grand Central with each product’s respective voice offerings… or maybe with open platforms, developers will build apps around them.

Also as I mention in the comment below, I strongly believe the pricing wars between the carriers will eventually mean that unlimited plans are no longer just affecting the high end customers. At that time, the carriers will have every reason to try and transfer their network loads over to the broadband connection in the home, if they aren’t getting paid extra for it, why would they want to deal with it?

http://gigaom.com/2008/02/21/femtocells-or-wi-fi-that-is-the-question/#comment-862903

By: Jahangir Raina

Jahangir Raina — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:36:46 +0000

It is not the lack of dual-mode handsets that keeps FMC from growing. The main factor is that cell operators are not pushing it because they stand to lose some traffic (both data and voice) through wifi. Like VoIP they will not react before they lose subscribers to FMC services. There are obvioulsy other reasons as well .... In a joint partnership model such as BT/Vodafone and Sprint/CableMSOs, it has proven to be tough to technically do the integration. And post integration the question is who owns the customer if both partners provision the customer inside their databases like HLR. In the enterprise space, PBX vendors have been slow in certifying FMC solutions since this could prove to be a threat to their desktop phone business once your mobile phone becomes your only phone.