PROFILE

Founded in 2001, Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, the 3GPP standard for extending mobile voice, data and IMS services over fixed IP access networks.  Kineto is a privately held, venture-backed company whose UMA-compliant products are enabling mobile operators around the globe to deliver high-performance, low-cost fixed-mobile convergence solutions including dual-mode GSM/Wi-Fi handsets, femtocells, terminal adaptors and softmobiles at home and office.

MARKET OPPORTUNITY

The mobile industry has been one of the 20th century's great success stories, making mobile handsets a mainstay of daily life for more than one and a half billion people around the world.   Nonetheless, the industry's maturation presents fundamental business challenges for mobile operators.  As customer additions slow, operators must identify the next growth opportunity as well as hold onto the subscribers they've already garnered.

Without doubt, increasing mobile service use at home and office represents one of the largest growth opportunities for mobile operators.  However, despite high interest from subscribers in wanting to use their mobile phone as their primary phone, the cost and performance challenges of mobile services have prevented operators from being able to capitalize on this tremendous opportunity.

Fortunately, some new technological forces are quickly changing the communications landscape: Broadband, Femtocells, Wi-Fi and VoIP.  However, it's been unclear until recently how these technology mega-trends will affect mobile operators.  If anything, they've been viewed increasingly as potential threats.

Kineto SOLUTION

Now, thanks to UMA (the 3GPP standard for convergence), mobile operators can truly embrace these disruptive technologies and turn them to their advantage. By deploying UMA technology, mobile operators can immediately use the broadband access network in homes and offices to seamless extend their cellular networks via Wi-Fi and femtocells.  As a result, they can now deliver high-performance, low-cost mobile voice, data and IMS services in the exact locations they are looking to increase mobile service usage.

Kineto Wireless is the key innovator behind the 3GPP UMA standard as well as the leading supplier of UMA-compliant infrastructure network solutions to operators worldwide, and leading supplier of UMA-compliant client software solutions to mobile device manufacturers.