Meru Networks teams with T-Mobile

T-Mobile USA and Meru Networks have partnered to bring fixed mobile convergence (FMC) to enterprise customers, using unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology, states TMC Net.

UMA technology ensures a seamless experience in moving between networks. It allows the mobile operator's subscribers' devices to ensure seamless mobile connectivity between outdoor cellular infrastructures and indoor WiFi networks without experiencing any interruption to their calls.

T-Mobile is the first national telecom operator with an FMC offering targeted at enterprise customers. T-Mobile is the first company to utilise UMA technology, which provides GSM/GPRS mobile devices with access to Meru enterprise WLANs over unlicensed spectrum bands.

UK telco BT is planning a return to the mobile space, reports Telecoms.

The carrier offloaded its own mobile network, Cellnet (now known as O2), in 2001 but has made its wireless designs known in recent years. In 2005, BT introduced Fusion, a fixed mobile convergence service under an MVNO partnership with Vodafone, but the offering has failed to attract a sizeable subscriber base.

Sources say the carrier has been in discussion with 3UK and T-Mobile UK, which operate a joint 3G access network in the UK under a joint partnership. It is thought that BT will strike a deal to offer 3G services, maybe mobile broadband, over this jointly-owned network.

Alcatel-Lucent and the Institut Telecom have opened a joint research laboratory that will research future applications for digital media sector, says Newsdesk.

"The joint research programme we are entering into with Institut Telecom is focused on taking innovative concepts and using them to enable new multimedia applications," states Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs president Jeong Kim.

Institut Telecom chairman Pascal Faure says the Institut will leverage the scientific potential of the fixed mobile convergence networker's researchers to support the economic and social development based on technology and innovation. This initiative is our best way to remedy the crisis.