Rogers Wireless — and likely FIDO — is set to offer a UMA service (to bridge their GSM network with your home network) come May this year. Purportedly dubbed the Rogers Home Calling Zone, the service would roll out to consumer customers — no mention in the “news” about Business, Rogers will charge for the WiFi/UMA access - $15/mo for local unlimited calling and $20/mo for unlimited long distance (within Canada) and “competitive” international long distance rates. The BlackBerry Pearl 8120 and a lower-end Nokia handset are apparently the launch handsets for the service — if it proves true, and we think it likely will.
[…] you’d probably expect of any modern T-Mobile phone with WiFi, namely support for myFaves and HotSpot@Home.That last bit about the WiFi calling is where it gets really interesting. Put simply, the […]
[…] Rogers Wireless has quietly launched the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, becoming the first North American carrier to pick up the device. The phone sits in the mid range of Nokia’s media phones and includes a column of dedicated music controls as well as a media player that supports AAC, MP3, and WMA, an FM radio tuner is also onboard, as is a microSD slot that holds up to 4GB of storage. […]