Hello all,

I always have UMA switched on on my BlackBerry. If I've no mobile coverage 
with Orange, I can still send/receive email.

UMA is supposed to offer roaming between the mobile network and 802.11. I've 
never had this working for voice however, but put it down to the fact that I 
don't have Orange Broadband or one of their funny white routers at home. I 
figured they must only support UMA if you used their kit.

Today though in a part of my house where I don't usually get mobile signal, 
I noticed UMA in capitals on my handset. I was very surprised to see I could 
make a call, which (I think) went over the wireless. I confirmed this by 
switching off my wireless router mid-call and sure enough the call dropped. 
Another test call and the result was the same. A short time after powering 
off the router, the phone would go back to showing No Signal.

So...

What's going on! :-) I've made no changes to my setup at all network wise.

Have Orange done something lately with UMA? Why's this started working 
today?

Many thanks.

You can now (unofficially at the moment) use non-Orange broadband ISP's to 
use Orange UMA services. Will be rolled out officially soon. At this moment 
in time no support is being offered for it for non Orange ISP customers 
though.

Specific UMA bundles can be added to your Orange Account for things like 
unlimited landline calls etc.

Simon

"Jow Blogs"  wrote in message 
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> Hello all,
>
> I always have UMA switched on on my BlackBerry. If I've no mobile coverage 
> with Orange, I can still send/receive email.
>
> UMA is supposed to offer roaming between the mobile network and 802.11. 
> I've never had this working for voice however, but put it down to the fact 
> that I don't have Orange Broadband or one of their funny white routers at 
> home. I figured they must only support UMA if you used their kit.
>
> Today though in a part of my house where I don't usually get mobile 
> signal, I noticed UMA in capitals on my handset. I was very surprised to 
> see I could make a call, which (I think) went over the wireless. I 
> confirmed this by switching off my wireless router mid-call and sure 
> enough the call dropped. Another test call and the result was the same. A 
> short time after powering off the router, the phone would go back to 
> showing No Signal.
>
> So...
>
> What's going on! :-) I've made no changes to my setup at all network wise.
>
> Have Orange done something lately with UMA? Why's this started working 
> today?
>
> Many thanks.