Fido offers UMA service
I noticed today that Fido (a Canadian mobile telco that is part of Rogers) is now offering the Nokia 6301 with UMA enabled if you buy their UNO router. The router thing is kinda dumb. Its just a crap average wifi router than might have some software installed to point your session to Fido/Rogers servers? Or maybe its just a wifi router for $80?
Anyway, kinda lame in how this is going out. I have heard Rogers is rolling it out as well. Perhaps it pains them to use Nokia devices to roll this out since Nokia likes to offer unlocked devices in the US for the same price Rogers sells them for with contracts? It is really cool technology and could, in theory, reduce costs all around. But pushing 802.11 routers that are special seems to be a bit odd.
UMA is: “Unlicensed Mobile Access or UMA, is the commercial name of the 3GPP Generic Access Network, or GAN standard. GAN is a telecommunication system which extends mobile services voice, data and IP Multimedia Subsystem/Session Initiation Protocol (IMS/SIP) applications over IP access networks.” Wikipidea.
