Swedes Are Home Free With FMC

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Gabriel Brown 12/5/2012 | 3:03:11 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC It's interesting that the two most recent launches of UMA arenGÇÖt tied to a broadband subscription. This makes much more sense for the customer and operator.

It's even better if users can access services over any WiFi network +á la T-Mobile.

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zwixard 12/5/2012 | 3:03:09 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC The biggest reason for T-Mobile USA to launch UMA is to expand its coverage without adding new base stations. The customer already pays for the broadband and indoor Wi-Fi. Now, T-Mobile want the customer to pay another monthly UMA fee to use his own air wave. To solve coverage problem, T-Mobile should pay their customers to use UMA.

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Gabriel Brown 12/5/2012 | 3:03:08 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC But that's kind of the pointGÇª it's parasitic.

Broadband is there. Wireless carriers should use it to their advantage.

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zwixard 12/5/2012 | 3:03:05 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC From QoS aspect, UMA and FemtoCell both operate at the mercy of the broadband bandwidth availability. If you make a UMA call while your kids are downloading a 4G movie using a P2P file sharing application such as BitTorrent, your voice quality will be poor because BitTorrent is very good at eating up all the bandwidth and your UMA RTP packets are easy candidates to be dropped by your Wi-Fi router. What is the point to use UMA that is suppose to improve "quality" at home but not guaranteed to get the quality.

If I have coverage problem at home with carrier A, I would see if carrier B can do better. If none is available, I forward my cell phone to my land phone when I go home. Why should I pay to solve carriers' coverage problem?

I have no better word than suckers to describe UMA users.

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[email protected] 12/5/2012 | 3:03:03 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC While T-Mobile doesn't advertise the option, you can use a UMA-enabled phone over your own Wi-Fi simply to improve your coverage. No extra fee required, it works with your existing plan.

I have a 600 min plan with T-Mo, I don't pay an additional $10/month. I just use a UMA phone and they bill me at my normal rate.

The $10/month is to get people to drop their land lines. Ie Vonage is $25/month for unlimited call over IP vs $10 from T-Mobile.

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[email protected] 12/5/2012 | 3:03:03 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC "I have no better word than suckers to describe UMA users"

Interesting perspective. UMA is at the mercy of IP just like any/all VoIP services. So are all VoIP subscribers 'suckers'? Skype? Vonage?

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zwixard 12/5/2012 | 3:03:02 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC "
Interesting perspective. UMA is at the mercy of IP just like any/all VoIP services. So are all VoIP subscribers 'suckers'? Skype? Vonage?
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Skype is free to consumers.
Vonage, like SunRocket, is a failed biz model.

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zwixard 12/5/2012 | 3:03:02 PM

re: Swedes Are Home Free With FMC "
While T-Mobile doesn't advertise the option, you can use a UMA-enabled phone over your own Wi-Fi simply to improve your coverage. No extra fee required, it works with your existing plan.
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Kineto folks know best that a UMA user must be authorized to use T-Mobile's UNC which is worth years' development. Some might be able to call their customer service and get authorized for now. But, T-Mobile cannot afford free use of that box forever.

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