Vodafone's Access Gateway

[PigzleFly]

Since BT uses Vodafone's mobil infrastructure, what are the chances that the much hyped femtocell Access Gateway will work with BT business mobile handsets?

Like many subscribers, I live in an area where I have to go upstairs and lean out of the window to send texts, and a conversation would verge on the suicidal! Although expensive, the broadband-enabled booster could be the answer to many of my problems.

John

[Tracey · Accepted solution]

Hi PigzleFly,

The Vodafone product is solely a consumer based product.

Priced in several options:

a) New subscribers: Low tier handset + femtocell + some minutes/texts @ £15/month
b) High end handset (an HTC smartphone similar to Google Android) + femtocell + 600 minutes @ £30/month
c) Rental only at £5/month
d) One off payment of £160

There are no special rates or extra minutes for use via the femtocell.

Access is controlled through a "whitelist" which can be updated online or via customer care, so any Vodafone 3G subscriber could use the femtocell, but only those phone numbers programmed/entered on the whitelist will be allowed to.

In principle our SIMs would/should be able to work with these units, however, as numbers must be added to the whitelist first, no doubt this will be crossed checked against Vodafone number database and would refuse connectivity.

Hope this helps

Thanks

Tracey

BT Forum Moderator