Posted on February 24, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Further insights from O2
O2’s Head of Core Network Innovation, John Carvalho gave further insights this week into the operator’s femtocell plans. Interestingly, Carvalho sees femtocell price points stabilising at £50-80, but not before 2009 and not until mass deployments are underway. This is perhaps more realistic than Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin’s comments last [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airwalk, Ericsson, Femtocell, femtocells, HotSpot@Home, ip.access, John Carvalho, LTE, Mavenir, Motorola, Nokia, O2, Partner Communications, T-Mobile, Telco 2.0, The Register | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 19, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Operator femtocell trial announcements
O2 announced femtocell trials in the UK. Their current lab trial will be extended to 500 UK users in the summer, and O2 hopes to launch femtocells commercially in 2009. The business case is about adding extra capacity to the O2 network to cope with explosive data growth caused by [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: 2Wire, ABI, Airvana, Aricent, BitWave, BT Fusion, Chris Gilbert, Contela, Femtocell, femtocells, Femtozone services, ip.access, Juni, Kineto, Netgear, picoChip, ShoZu, Sonus, Starent, Steve Mallinson, T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, TeliaSonera, Vodafone | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
No time for analysis this week, with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona coming up. Here are the headlines…
ip.access & Mavenir partner for femtozone services
“Together with Mavenir Systems, we are creating a platform for operators to offer a wide range of new mobile phone services for the home. With femtozone services, operators can [...]
Filed under: Connected Home, Market updates | Tagged: ADC, BT Fusion, Cisco, Continuous Computing, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, ip.access, Kineto, Mavenir, Mobile World Congress 2008, Motorola, NEC, Netgear, picoChip, Thomson, Ubiquisys | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 2, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Femto Forum aims to harmonise femto architectures
Today there are more femtocell network architectures than vendors (because some vendors support more than one). Initial femtocell deployments are using proprietary interfaces, but operators are pushing hard for interoperability, which allows them to purchase femtocell CPE from a wide selection of vendors irrespective of their choice of [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airave, Cisco, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, ip.access, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ovum, Sprint, TeliaSonera, Ubiquisys, Unstrung, Vodafone | 2 Comments »
