Femtozone services & the Connected Home

The femtocell consumer proposition will evolve quickly. Simple propositions based on basic voice coverage and homezone call discounts will kick-start the market (especially in the US, where 15% of homes have no coverage and 25% more experience poor call quality).
But as mobile social networking, video streaming and other data intensive services take off, the [...]

Market update for week of 21 Jan 2008

TeliaSonera to trial femtocells (is dual mode FMC a dead end?)
TeliaSonera will soon begin femtocell trials in Sweden and another country, and is planning end-user trials in Q3. One interesting aspect of this is that TeliaSonera already has a UMA-based FMC service called “Home Free”. Whereas Orange and T-Mobile US seem comfortable [...]

Cisco & femtocells

Cisco has made a strategic investment in ip.access. This follows recent comments that the company is “keeping an eye on the femtocell home base-station market”. There has been speculation in the past that Cisco is taking an active interest in femtocells, and might make an investment in a femto technology vendor. [...]

Market update for week of 14 Jan 2008

T-Mobile announces femtocell trials
T-Mobile says it’s running femtocell trials in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. More on this here.
Current Analysis says 2008 will set the stage for femtocells in 2009
According to Research Director, Peter Jarich, “2008 will be a year of figuring out what makes sense: the best business models, the best mobile [...]

T-Mobile & femtocells

T-Mobile announced this week that it’s running femtocell trials in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. According to reports, Emin Gurdenli (Technology Director at T-Mobile UK) said “A proper food chain has to be established before this thing rolls out in large numbers. But I’m personally optimistic.” He also said that [...]

Global Mobile Awards – where’s the category for femto?

The GSMA has removed the “Best Radio Access Product” category from this year’s Global Mobile Awards. This doesn’t leave any award category that’s appropriate for femtocells – or, in fact, any network infrastructure products at all. I think this is a bit of an oversight in a year which has seen a huge [...]

Market update for week of 7 Jan 2008

North American CDMA carriers to launch commercial femtocells in 2008
Tom Jasny, Samsung VP of wireless and broadband networks, was bullish about femtocell prospects in comments made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. He says Samsung has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators, and expects nationwide rollouts within the [...]

Femtocells & public health concerns

The French government is apparently advising its citizens that users should “avoid calling when reception is poor”.  It looks as though the public will become increasingly sensitised to the fact that mobile phones transmit at higher power when in poor coverage – for example, indoors.
Some are already seeing this as a potential selling point for [...]

Market update for weeks of 24 & 31 December 2007

Femtocells featured prominently in the analysts’ of end-of-year reviews and hot technology predictions for 2008. Aside from this, a new Nokia survey provides great validation of our assertion that consumers want mobile data services on their phones at home (despite the presence of the PC and TV), and there are the first signs of [...]

State of the (femto) nation

My friends at Velocity suggested I should take a look at SlideShare. It’s a very cool Web 2.0 application for sharing PowerPoint presentations. Here’s a presentation I gave at the recent Avren Femtocell conference in Dallas: