UMA cheap set up for overseas travel

[adam917]

Originally Posted by Stu

One problem with UMA is that each handset has to be tweaked for a particular carrier. For example, I have an Orange UK and Rogers Canada SIM which support UMA. I cannot shove either SIM into an unlock TMobile USA UMA handset and get a wifi connection.

Right. You have to do some hacking to get it to work. Also, some operators, like Rogers in Canada, doesn't sallow UMA abroad (they block it by IP address).