When UMA dual-mode handsets arrive then true seamless fixed, mobile roaming will be a reality for cellular operators. Read this report today to understand how it can work for you.

As cellular operators increase the variety of services and applications they offer to their customers the issue of in-building coverage increases in significance. Also, all mobile carriers aim to accelerate the fixed to mobile substitution trend.

Both dual-mode handsets and home base-stations will be used by operators to enable them to fulfil their strategies. This report compares the UMA dual-mode handset service with femtocells, which will become commercially available before the end of the year 2007.

Key findings of this study include:
-Although UMA technology is already available and deployed by a number of cellular carriers it is not yet used with 3G. The UMA standard will not be fully compliant with UMTS before the end of the year by which time home base-stations will have been made commercial. A large number of UMA enabled 3G handsets is not expected and therefore it seems that femtocells which can work with all UMTS terminals have an advantage when it comes to 3G.
-Both UMA dual-mode handsets and femtocell services will be priced similarly
-There will be applications specific to femtocells which will initially relate to presence based activation
-Femtocells will be used with standards beyond HSPA and some vendors claim that by using home base-stations first, carriers can delay their investment in macro-cell infrastructure.
-Although femtocells are expected to have a negative overall effect on the dual-mode handset market both technologies are expected to survive with new handover techniques based on SIP such as VCC emerging.

By reading this exclusive management report you will know:
-Exactly how many femtocells will be in operation through to 2012?
-How to target the market for UMA dual-mode handsets and femtocells?
-Which platforms and networks will be most successful in UMA?
-Which services, features and opportunities do UMA dual-mode handsets and femtocells will support?
-Who your major competitors and partners will be in this market?
-What are the opportunities, drivers and threats for producers and operators?

Who will read this report?
-Directors, VP and Senior managers in:
-Mobile/ Cellular carriers and operators
-Fixed/ landline/ broadband carriers
-Infrastructure vendors
-Femtocell access point vendors
-Wi-Fi vendors
-Semiconductor manufacturers
-Software vendors

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