Virtual Home Environment

Virtual Home Environment is defined as a concept for personalized services portability between the terminals and across the network boundaries such that user is constantly presented with the same personal features, user Interface customization and services by the service provider where ever the user may be .The beauty of this setup is the freedom of personalized services enjoyed at the customer end provided by the UMTS, though this is just a beginning of the dream era but the offers made by the UMTS are much heart throbbing and the word VHE has become the dream of every user in every sector

VHE Services

The broader bandwidth of UMTS promises new services based over Virtual Home Environment such as:
News: This will allow the user to choose news articles and language.
Shares: This will help user to request user the shares from stock exchange.
Papers: This service provides the user with paper display.
TV: The TV application can give user with the video streaming.
Video Call: This will allow user to have net meeting with other user.
Find: This will allow users to find a contact or other users.

VHE and Mobility

virtual home environment is the service which can give the client and server both a mobile and roaming environment .It can ensure following properties.

• User mobility enabling user to move physically from one location to other but use same services.
• Device mobility enabling user to switch from one device to other but using same service.
• Network mobility helps user to switch from one network to other and still use the same service.
• Session mobility is provided by virtual home environment so that user can have continuity in session even being after disconnected in that particular session.
• Service mobility user can switch from one service to other.Security user will be secured for his data transfer and other transactions

Conclusion

Thus in turn providing the opportunity for operators to build on the brand-based relationships they already enjoy with their customers - and drive new revenue by encouraging additional traffic, stimulating new usage patterns and strengthening customer loyalty. This feature of UMTS makes it much more useful than GSM and GPRS and makes it more user-friendly and lets user more confidence and liberty. The UMTS can revolutionize the both data transfer and revenue generation by introducing new services giving the users the freedom they never had.