UMA (Unlicenced Mobile Access) Mobile Phones
Poor Mobile reception indoors ?
If your home or
office is situated in an area with
weak mobile reception
UMA
(Unlicensed Mobile Access)
provides a method of using your mobile phone over a broadband
landline.
UMA requires a
phone that has WiFi and is also UMA-enabled, which is mainly BlackBerry smartphones, plus some models from Nokia, HTC, Samsung and LG.
Suitable phones include BlackBerry Curve
8520, BlackBerry Bold 9700
and Nokia 6301.
With UMA, if you have a
suitable phone and it has a WiFi connection to a broadband line (from any
provider, not just your mobile supplier), your calls will be routed over the
wireless network instead. You can set your phone to give priority to UMA
traffic, so calls (outgoing or incoming) go over your broadband connection,
although you’re able to change the preferred connection if needed.
In the UK
only Orange and T-Mobile offer
UMA.
If you’re an Orange customer UMA is free
apart from the cost of the call, which is charged at your normal rates (or out
of your 'bundled' minutes).
With UMA
there’s nothing else to buy or install, it just works.
To set up your phone you need to perform a one-off "pairing"
of your UMA-enabled handset and your WiFi network, following the instructions
provided with the phone. Once completed your handset will automatically switch
over from the mobile network to the paired WiFi network to give you boosted
coverage.
UMA technology works with any Wi-Fi broadband connection. Making a phone call
will only take up about 100Kb/s of your bandwidth.
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