Britain Has 11 New Mobile Networks

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Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

T-Mobile is coming out with this in the US. They call it UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access). The phone is a combination of GSM and WiFi. A lot of people are excited but I'm pretty much underwhelmed by it. In Japan they have a type of cellular called PHS where you have a little base station in your home and then there are thousands of other little stations in vending machines, etc. all over the place. Obviously it only works in town.

So I would assume that the UMA setup also relies heavily on their HotSpot network in certain areas? I haven't heard anything about this coming to Germany. I don't use their HotSpots since there is always some cafe here in Cologne that has free W-LAN/WiFi access.