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To: Eric L who wrote (17509)	10/28/2006 5:03:07 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Eric, I'm much obliged to you for putting that presentation together and for presenting it here. Thanks. Notably, among the developed nations of the world, we're among the last to be getting a whif of this service, beta as it might be. Does the T-Mobile UMA platform represent the first of what might become another regime of parallel universes, likse iTunes and Zune discussed on this board earlier today? One being provided by T-Mobile, antoher by Cingular, and the others by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel whenever they get around to it? At one point the author notes: "It's worth noting, however, that UMA does not require anything special to get going, and will work on any WiFi connection." Is that true in every sense? Or, will the user be bound to using T-Mobile hot spots and his @Home Hot Spot, exclusively? I think the intent was that any WiFi router could be used at home. What is your take on this? Another area that I question is the number of user-initiated actions that can be billed as a "dip" function. By "dip," I mean anytime the service provider's data bases are dipped into in order to log and/or effect a change. Like, anytime one toggles between a hot-spot connection to one based on the cellular network, or vice versa. --- I recently sat through a webinar that generally spells out the nuts and bolts of how these features work behind the scenes, although it might be viewed as a sideways approach to the subject, since it actually dealt with the implications of IMS vis a vis VCC and UMA. From Telephonyonline.com telephonyonline.com VCC vs. UMA: Two Technologies or Two Different Services? Telephony’s Webcast delves inside the topic of fixed/mobile convergence and uncovers what role VCC and UMA play in the transition to converged networks. Panelists include: * MODERATOR: Dan O’Shea, Editor-in-Chief, Telephony * Jean-Louis Fuccellaro, Seamless Mobility Manager, France Telecom/Orange * Ali Kafel, Vice President, Telecommunications, Stratus * Mehul Shah, Manager, Strategy & Technology Group, inCode To register and watch: accelacomm.com ------ FAC

To: Eric L who wrote (17509)	12/14/2006 8:00:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

[FMC] Marrying the Cellphone to Cheap Internet Calling By Glenn Fleishman \| December 14, 2006 \| NY Times Seattle - Matthew Miller wanted to cut the cost of his cellphone plan. He and his wife, Dayna, had regularly exceeded their 2,000-minute-per-month T-Mobile family plan, incurring extra-use charges that reached $60 some months. With her home business and his daily commute of two and a half hours to his job in Seattle, they decided this year to move to the maximum 3,000-minute plan. They spend another $20 a month for unlimited long-distance calling on their landline. Mr. Miller, a columnist for Geek.com and ZDNet in his spare time, was therefore not surprised when T-Mobile asked the couple to join an early local test of a service that combines the ubiquity of cellular networks with the flat pricing for unlimited calls available with some Internet-based phone services. The new service, HotSpot@Home, allows a subscriber to place calls from a mobile phone using cellular and Wi-Fi networks, whether a home wireless network or a hot spot operated by T-Mobile. In my own testing, I found the service a reasonable first draft of what could become a reliable alternative to both all-cellular networks and an emerging set of Wi-Fi-only phones. The marriage might even save money — for both T-Mobile and its subscribers. Carrying calls over Wi-Fi networks costs the company as little as 20 percent of the expense of calls handled on a cellular network. Continued at: tinyurl.com ------