Tmobile no longer pushing UMA calling. Time for femtocell?

Since it seems like T-mobile has stopped pushing UMA calling. T-mobile's parent company has been using femtocells, would it not make sense that T-mobile will be launching a femtocell device that all their 3g devices could use.  I would love it since my 3g coverage is spotty at my house.  My wife has a sidekick lx and I have a mytouch. 

Of course, that assumes you would be willing to pay another $20/mo for service, yes?  or do you think it would be more?

I guess that does make sense since this will allow the 3G phones to also get service and not just UMA enabled devices.

I pay extra for the UMA now to get the better reception at home and would probably do the same for the femtocell.

I guess that does make sense since this will allow the 3G phones to also get service and not just UMA enabled devices.

I pay extra for the UMA now to get the better reception at home and would probably do the same for the femtocell.

All paying extra does is get you the unlimited UMA minutes.  You can drop your @Home plan and just take the minutes out of your normal plan, if you prefer, your UMA phone will still work over wireless.

I'm pretty sure you dont have to pay for additional service with a femtocell, you just have to pay for the unit.  Att was testing them and i think Verizon already has them.  They were running about $250 and I guess if you got rid of a house phone it would make sense.  I dont think they charge a service because you use your ISP to get a signal a make calls over VOIP.  They have short ranges so that they would only cover your house.  If using voip then they dont use their network thus they wouldn't need to charge for it, they would make money off selling the devices.  I hope they come out with these I get terrible service in my house if it wasn't for UMA calling my phone would be useless at home.

Another reason why femtocell is worse than UMA is for us international travelers the Femtocells have a GPS device that verifies its within USA before it works, which would be a killer. UMA you can use in any wifi network, I have used it on just about every continent.

Im not sure they are entirely done with UMA. They sure arent done with Hotspot@Home VOIP service like they were supposed to have been. I think theyve just cut down on the amount of phones that will be having it.

According to CNet.Reviews...it was  TMob's  Nokia 6301 that started this HotSpot@Home.
Ugly, but still a darn good phone for utilitarians!

That wasnt the phone that started it. I thought it was the Samsung Katalyst?

Any rumors of them making a femtocell?  Att just announced a national roll out of there's, would be nice to use my phone in my house.

I am a avid user of UMA as I get little to no signal at my house. UMA is the reason I switched from another carrier. I am getting concerned about the future availability of the feature.

I was in a TMO corporate store yesterday looking at the handset offerings. They have no non smart phones that have UMA. They used to carry the Samsung t339 and the Nokia 7510 plus a few others. The Blackberrys are listed as having WIFI calling. There is no mention of "HotSpot enabled" phones even on the Blackberrys.

Does this mean my only option for a new handset is a Blackberry or is this the start of the phase out of UMA?

I'd really like to see femtocell on T-Mobile. Every other U.S. carrier (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint) have it or are going to have it soon. UMA doesn't appeal to me, because it limits the handset choices. I want to be able to use whatever handset I have (and keep my choices open), but improve my home reception.

I just moved and my reception at home is pretty spotty now. It's the first time I've ever had problems with T-Mobile (and I've been with them since the Voicestream days). I really don't want to switch to AT&T, just so I can keep using my GSM handset. AT&T has the worst customer service of any company I've ever dealt with, many times over (I used to have an AT&T landline). Femtocell would be a good solution for me.

Alternatively, I'd be happy if I could use the wifi on my phone to access my T-Mobile service. I have a Symbian S60 device, with VOIP capability. But it seems like hotspot@home only works with specific UMA designed phones.

UMA doesnt have to be device specific anymore due to the software breakthrough into providing the service in which any device with Wi-Fi will be able to have this. Seems like T-Mobile is beginning to reverse their decision on stopping UMA production.

UMA doesnt have to be device specific anymore due to the software breakthrough into providing the service in which any device with Wi-Fi will be able to have this. Seems like T-Mobile is beginning to reverse their decision on stopping UMA production.

Thanks for the respose. So are you saying I can use T-Mobile's UMA service with ny Nokia N86? If so, how would I set that up?

Right now im not so sure.