Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and leading supplier of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology, today announced the company has surpassed its 2006 goals for industry adoption of UMA, with commercial delivery of UMA-based products and services by major mobile operators and vendors gaining significant momentum worldwide.
While 2005 was the year of vendors and operators announcing their intentions, 2006 has proven to be the year of UMA delivery,??? said Rick Gilbert, CEO of Kineto Wireless. With major operators launching UMA-based services, and major vendors delivering UMA-based products, 2006 will be seen as the year UMA achieved commercial success.???
UMA has had commercial success in 2006 with Orange, Telecom Italia, T-Mobile, and TeliaSonera,??? said Senior Analyst Nick Holland at Pyramid Research. It’s clear UMA addresses a fundamental market need for operators to lower costs, accelerate fixed-mobile substitution, and counter the threat from VoIP providers. As these operators ramp up, 2007 should see strong gains in deployments.???
Leading Mobile Operators Launched UMA Services
Driven by the need to accelerate fixed-to-mobile substitution as well as counter the increasing threat from new VoIP service providers, a number of leading mobile operators launched UMA dual-mode handset (DMH) services in 2006.
UMA-based DMH service launches in 2006 included Orange/France Telecom’s unik service in France; T-Mobile’s Hotspot@Home service in the U.S.; TeliaSonera’s HomeFree service in Denmark; Telecom Italia’s Unico service in Italy; and British Telecom’s Fusion service in the U.K. In a report published by ABI Research in October 2006, the firm estimated shipments of dual-mode handsets will be in excess of 300 million worldwide by 2011.
By bridging our GSM network and our DSL network thanks to the Wi-Fi enabled LiveBox UMA technology allows FT/Orange to deliver a truly seamless wireless experience to our customers,??? stated Sanjiv Ahuja, the chief executive officer of the Orange Group.

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