After Samsung, it is now Nokia’s term to popularize the UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology in the mass market. Yes, the global mobile phone giant is putting all the resources to test its first voice-over-wireless LAN system and service in Finland.





Nokia has provided UMA mobile phones to some 50 households in the city of Oulu. They are using Nokia 6136 mobile sets, the UMA phones that support handover of voice and data calls between a WLAN and the local GSM network.



These mobile sets does not require constantly communicate with a GSM base station but will also make calls through WLAN Internet networks. It enables the users to make low cost VoIP calls.









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