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by bretthoerner 5423 days ago
> You can't mask wifi as a mobile broadband connection. (If you know how to do it, please share - I'd be interested to know!)

No argument here, I'm not an expert... but isn't this exactly what the microcell devices that AT&T (etc) are giving to customers do? You set it up on your home broadband and nearby users invisibly use that "tower" and it goes over your home network.
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jonknee 5423 days ago
There are multiple kinds of devices. Femtocell is basically a little cell tower that is in your home/business. UMA is when you can do voice over WiFi and it was backed by T-Mobile, but they have shied away from it and not introduced it with Android. It's somewhat tricky and needs phone support (for the handoffs between networks), whereas any phone can support femtocell.
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drzaiusapelord 5423 days ago
Voice over WIFI is doable with Android. The latest update to my Vibrant installed the feature.
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jonknee 5423 days ago
Good to see, I had missed that T-Mobile made the UMA move on Android. Does it do the seamless handoffs or do have to make a call either over the cellular network or WiFi?
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