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Students with mobile phones may soon have their calls from home connected via their broadband connection.

Trials are being held to test the technology which lets mobile phones make their calls through the broadband connection in a house rather than over a traditional network.

Femtocells would be used which are small areas of wireless connectivity in houses which are made possible by a device similar to a wireless router being in one room.

Steve Mallinson, chief executive of ip.access, a Cambridge-provider of femtocells, said: "There's going to be an explosive growth in data services, and the regular 3G network simply will not be able to cope as these services are rolled out."

The vice president of mobile wireless at ABI research added that the home is the last "unchartered battleground for technology providers".

It is thought that the scheme is being trialled to ease the strain that is currently being put on the network at the moment. This may be due to the increase in people using their mobile phones to download games and ring tones.

Transferring calls and texts to broadband connections would mean that people who are downloading content onto their phones would get a better connection speeds would increase.

In related news students with mobile phones who fancy a flutter may be interested to now that Vodafone is to make a poker game available to users through the Vodafone live portal.

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