Unlicensed Mobile Access
p2pnet.net News:- Oulu in Finland is, appropriately, the test bed for Nokia’s first Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) pilot trial.
Fifty families will use UMA-capable Nokia 6136 mobile phones to make calls over the Net when they’re in range of an unlicensed wireless network such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
When they move out of range, connections will be, “handed over seamlessly from GSM mobile radio networks to local WLANs and vice versa,” says Heise Online.
Pan Oulu, as the project is named, started last year when the center of the Finnish university city and its universities were equipped with “numerous public hotspots, which citizens and visitors can use for free,” says the story.
However, the 6136 is giving problems – but of the infringement kind, it adds.
Because of the Nokia handset’s UMA functionality , Germany’s SkyDSL provider Teles, “has sued the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer for infringement of a patent, says Heise Online.
“At the same time Teles has filed similar actions against a string of other companies, the hardware manufacturer AVM and the ISP 1&1 among them. For their part the companies Cisco and Quintum, which are also defendants in actions filed by Teles, are at present trying to have the patent wielded by the latter company declared invalid. The proceedings against Nokia have been suspended until a ruling is issued in the above case.”
Also See:
Heise Online – Nokia tests UMA in Finnish university city, July 28, 2006
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