Posted on March 31, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Forbes says femtocells will cause mobile services price collapse
Hidden in this otherwise reasonably good write-up is the somewhat bizarre claim that “…for carriers, femtocells are as scary a threat as free Wi-Fi”.
Apparently, because they “create a flood of additional capacity at very small cost” they could cause an industrywide price collapse.
Huh?
The Guardian on femtocells
“What [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Ericsson maintains its resistance to 3G femtocells
This time Ericsson is saying that the chips are too expensive, so they won’t build a 3G femtocell before 2009. But analysts believe the real reason for Ericsson’s resistance is the fact that femtocells threaten the vendor’s core macro cellular infrastructure business. “Ericsson welcomes the femtocell [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Softbank to launch femtocells in October
Softbank’s femtocell launch is being planned for October. Interestingly, they have been using in-home repeaters to test the concept, which suggests a basic coverage proposition – repeaters don’t provide any of the other, more interesting benefits that femtocells offer (private cell capacity for the home, homezone discounts, femtozone services…).
Softbank [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Vodafone says it could launch a commercial femtocell service this year
At its Technology Update conference in London this week, Vodafone said it is aggressively pushing femtocell development because it sees the potential to cut costs in its 3G macro network deployments. “We intend to use the technology to reduce macro capex spend by up [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2008 by Andy Tiller
3GPP Adds 3G Support to UMA Standard
3GPP completed a specification update effort last week that added 3G (Iu-interface) support to the UMA/GAN standard. 3G dual mode handsets with UMA support are expected in Q3 this year.
As well as supporting dual mode services that compete with femtocells, the announcement can also be seen as a [...]
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