“This public demonstration, of advanced 3G mobile voice and data services integrated with landline telephony and wired and wireless multimedia, now proves the relevance of integrating 3G wireless, LAN, voice and WAN technologies into Mobile Operators’ networks,” said David James, NETGEAR’s director of service provider products. “Mobile operators and consumers are rapidly realizing the advantages that femtocells offer in delivering a quad-play experience with improved coverage, capacity and throughput to customers.”

The NETGEAR Femtocell Voice Gateway (DVG834GH) and the converged network services it delivers can be seen in action in the Ubiquisys booth (Hall 1, Stand G19) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 16-19, 2009.

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StarHub is making all local outgoing voice, video calls and SMS free for customers using the ‘Home Zone’ service, ensuring that users, who make frequent mobile calls and SMS from home, can enjoy significant cost-savings on their mobile phone bills.

While all outgoing local voice calls, video calls and SMS are free – MMS, IDD calls, mobile downloads, mobile surfing and other GPRS activities conducted over the mobile device will be charged at standard published rates.