Kineto and Informa will present the results of a world-wide survey of consumers and their interest in a UMA service. What do consumers want? How much will they pay? And would they churn to get the service from another provider? The definitive UMA survey, presented exclusively at the industry’s first UMA conference.

• What are the technical and market drivers for adoption?
• What is the benefit to the customer?
• How can operators use the service to enhance value offerings?
• What factors will affect deployment considerations in different markets?

• Value added location triggered services in the home and the hotspot
• Integrated telephony solutions with UMA
• UMA as an enabler of convergence
• UMA in the future niche service environment

• How does UMA’s technology evolve in an IP network?
• What is the role of UMA in a 3G network?
• Adapting UMA to alternative networks (WiMax, CDMA)
• Where will UMA be in 3 years time?

• Authentication, authorization and accounting for UMA
• The importance of technological transparency to the consumer/operator
• User access and authentication over a fixed access point
• Service access policies, security control and pricing models

• Where to connect geographically agnostic IP traffic into the existing network
• Distributing UMA traffic across the network and assessing the network architecture
• Replanning considerations as a result of situating the UMA cell in the traditional GSM network
• Network scalability and the implications of high data traffic over wifi
• Planning and capacity implications for the rest of the network

• Why do operators choose to deploy and offer a UMA service?
• Assessing the impact of UMA on additional network traffic/operator revenue
• UMA is a simple concept on paper. What about the reality?
• Case story A, the architecture of a real network in the UK
Case story B, a vision for a value-added UMA service

• Using pricing initiatives to reduce network traffic
• Assessing the impact of new service opportunities on the mobile network
• Hotspot selection criteria, service attractiveness vs network complexity
• Ensuring ease of service for the customer

• Will UMA be attractive at a price or service level?
• Tariff and pricing challenges
• What are the target markets for UMA, how can the markets be segmented?
• Comparing business and consumer markets
• Will UMA be a success in saturated markets with low call pricing?

• How will existing APs work with UMA?
• Are there any new factors to consider when deploying Access Points for UMA
• Support for Quality of Service , legacy, new services and easy customer configuration
• Support for SIP and IMS based services, Bluetooth, 802.11u and 802.11r
• Assessing current progress in the home network environment
• 3GPP Personal Network Management and the TISPAN IMS Residential Gateway
• Developing realistic user scenarios
• Evaluating interference and interferers in the home and office environments
• What are the considerations when selecting an appropriate location for Access Points in the home and office

• What are the current drivers behind FMC operator strategies?
• How are operators situating UMA into their service offerings?
• How much support is the technology receiving from the industry?
• What is the convergence end point and how might UMA help operators to get there?
• Forecasts of subscribers/service revenues and handset shipments for FMC/UMA

• Evaluating the BT Fusion experience with Bluetooth technology
• Assessing the impact of Bluetooth EDR and UWB on a UMA service
• IP access with Bluetooth and Wifi
• Comparison of Bluetooth and Wifi ecosystems on mobile phones and their accessories
• What is the future roadmap of UMA Bluetooth?

• Assessing convergence with UMA at the network, service and organisational levels
• Initialising the move towards IP connectivity in the mobile terminal
• What are the implications for the operator’s business model?
• The organisational impact of launching an integrated service
• Integration of the OSS and BSS in the network
• Residential vs Enterprise convergence markets

• Differentiating UMA from the IMS access agnostic core network
• The time to market opportunity with UMA
• How will UMA fit with and evolve to IMS
• Implementing UMA for voice convergence and as a delivery system for IMS services
• Deploying UMA solutions to complement future IMS implementation

• The time to market opportunity with UMA
• Introducing elements of IP with UMA - breathing life into the GSM network as part of the migration process
• Leveraging the IMS opportunity with UMA
• What are the advantages of a SIP based convergence solution?
• What impact will SIP and Wifi standardisation have on UMA attractiveness?
• What is the long term role of UMA and can it coexist in an IMS/SIP environment

• An overview of the current OT footprint (Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, WIND-Italy)
• What is the need for UMA in the data environment?
• Looking at the current cost structure of data on GPRS networks
• Some obstacles in the current cost of data
• Contrasting the relationship between data structure on Wifi vs GPRS
• UMA as a solution for driving data services

• Short recap of the rules of international roaming and its regulation
• How could UMA change the international roaming business?
• What types of operators would be of interest in this approach?
• Technical and commercial challenges to overcome
• Could this make UMA interesting to enterprises?

• What is the significance of UMA to the MVNO?
• How the business proposition depends on the extent of network ownership
• Increasing the ability to provide an end to end service with in the MVNO network domain
• The combined impact of lower cost infrastructure and UMA on roaming/peering agreements with operators

• Is UMA just a weapon against VoIP providers or are new service offerings required to justify investment?
• Can UMA fit into an operator’s long term service offerings?
• Could a UMA service impact on roaming revenue through use of Wifi access abroad and can this be built into the service offering?
• Can UMA appeal to the enterprise market?
• How important is industry support for the technology’s future role?

• UMA network is partly out of range of the operator, how to survive?
• Reducing home management and customer care investments
• Using remote management capabilities to maximise profit potential
• Facilitating customer configurations when setting up and using the service
• What options exists for remote management and what kind of processes should be optimized
• Configurations and parameters in the wifi access point

• What are the primary concerns of the operators?
• What new threats might UMA bring to the operator network?
• Enabling secure user authentication and tunnel termination
• Ensuring scalability of network security solutions and future proofing investments

• What new security threats will become apparent as networks converge to IP and IMS
• What is the required scalability for mass-market UMA deployments?
• What security functionality is needed beyond just IP sec termination?
• Should all of the security functionality for UMA be delivered in a single box/blade, or are multiple "security blades" acceptable from an operator’s perspective?
• Should a UMA Security Gateway also be able to terminate secure IMS connections, or should a separate infrastructure be deployed for IMS?

• How can mobile and wireline operators integrate UMA in their pricing strategy?
• What would the customer like to see?
• The importance of pricing transparency when setting up new pricing models
• What are the issues of charging for UMA across different networks
• Evaluation of several potential charging implementation strategies

• When will the 3G - UMA handover over an Iu interface specifications be released?
• Other areas of focus for the 3GPP in this area
• Will the benefits justify the effort?

• What market environment would be needed to justify greater integration between cellular and wifi stacks?
• How to address issues of size and power consumption?
• Will handset prices drive UMA as a mass market phenomenon?
• Roadmaps for the UMA/multimode handset

• What challenges does UMA present to the CDMA operator?
• What are the convergence options for CDMA players?
• A look at the CDMA-Wifi handover and other alternatives
• How FMCA is approaching UMA standard developments; an overall industry and global perspective on UMA and its implications
• What are the benefits of UMA technology and challenges it brings?

• Impact of the UMA feature w.r.t. MMI, bearer awareness and data rates on the mobile phone architecture
• Highly integrated WLAN function as part of a full UMA reference design
• Single core handsets with real time OS as enabler for mass market UMA handsets
• System Solution approach as fast path for IDH/OEM/ODM to participate in the FMC market

• Will the performance/cost balance enable dual mode handset penetration at a mass market level?
• How will incorporating Wifi affect the user interface?
• On a UMA handset, which applications need to be "bearer aware"?
• What are the other elements of user interface that need to be worked out - eg connection manager.
• Will the handset be able to cope with high data rates that Wifi enables?
• Delivery schedules of UMA handsets

• How close can we get to the optimal user interface: Switch it on and it just works!
• Impact of prime usage on the user interface: Is the device primarily a phone, handheld computer or media player?
• Communicating differences in speed, coverage, call costs, quality etc as a result of handover between bearers
• Lessons to be learnt from early UMA phones - the good the bad and the ugly

• Are the market dynamics and economies of scale present to enable a fully integrated mass market dual mode handset solution?
• Can dual mode devices reach cost levels that could ensure mass market application of Wifi convergence solutions
• What considerations are handset vendors giving to UMA and IMS based services?
• What impact will wifi technology have on the user interface?
• What are the wider industry implications of dual mode and specifically wifi handsets?
• When will affordable UMA handsets be available?