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- In mobile computing, the Virtual Home Environment (VHE) is the concept that a network supporting mobile users should provide them the same computing environment on the road that they have in their home or corporate computing environment. VHE is part of IMT-2000 and the Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). With VHE, a network (referred to as a foreign network) emulates the behavior of the user's home network and the user has the same services that they are accustomed to at home.

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24 May 2007

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-	In South Africa, African Cellular's Web site provides a number of UMTS Technical Details .
-	In the UK, Mike Pratt offers Links to GSM and UMTS Related Pages .
-	John Skourias's paper, Overview of the Global System for Mobile Communications , is recommended.

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