UMA update: handsets and femtocells hinder success

Publication Date	March 2009
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	13
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00742

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Summary

The industry continues to debate about whether mobile operators should use UMA or femtocells to offer homezone services. Both UMA and femtocells bring the same benefits to the mobile operator, and ultimately there is little difference to the end user.

Content

Executive summary
In a nutshell
Key messages
UMA is not designed for fixed operators
Handsets are the key barrier against UMA success
Femtocells versus UMA: femtocells will win long term
UMA: a technology before its time
The UMA dual-mode landscape
Operator overview
UMA operator highlights
Orange keeps UMA central to its convergence strategy
T-Mobile USA finds success with fixed services
Rogers launches not one but two UMA services
Operators with UMA issues
BT and TIM withdraw UMA products
TeliaSonera struggles to find the right way to commercialise UMA
The vendor perspective
Kineto: working hard to keep the UMA story alive
Device vendors: increased but still limited UMA support
Device vendors: volume commitments prove an issue for operators
Challengers to UMA
SIP-based services
Femtocells are attractive to mobile operators
In early US deployment UMA wins over femtocells
but femtocells will outperform UMA in the long term
- Table 1: Operator UMA services
- Table 2: UMA devices and vendors
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Sprint versus T-Mobile USA