Hi All, New to the forum & hope that I will be able to share some things of interest with the other members here, in the coming months. My joining was at the instigation of Bill Austin, so thanks Bill for pointing out the existence of this Group.
I am currentyl working in Switzerland for an organisation called WeRoam, where we are the market innovator regarding GSM / WiFi convergance. We have recently launched the first commercially available UMTS-GPRS- WiFi Roaming service that authenticates via a data SIM card (USIM for the technologists)& is integrated within three seperate dataa cards : Option, Sony Ericsson & Novatel. What is so exciting about this ? The user can now authenticate via the IMSIE on the data card, similar to a voice session directly to the Home Location Registry of his home GSM operator. As members of the GSMA, WeRoam have the capability to provide real time billing directly to the GSM operator in TAP format. The holy grail ?? In this case that International Roamed WLAN sessions can be produced as line items on the bill. This allows GSM's to sweat their assets, nominally, SIM card, HLR & billing infrastructure without any heavy uplift or capital investment in new platforms. The service has been launched here with Orange CH, we have customers in Israel & Russia launching on our platform & also one of the largest GSMs will be launching a variant later this year. Any parties interested in finding out more about this & how & possibly why we do it, please feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] & If this has bored you to tears, don't blame me, blame Bill. Kind regards Paul ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/5AhqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> http://www.wireless--lan.com/ http://www.wlanforum.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
