Market update for week of 19 May

Qualcomm invests in ip.access
Our news received a lot of coverage this week (see below for a partial listing).  Heavy Reading’s Gabriel Brown thinks that Qualcomm has made a good investment choice – “ip.access is one of the best femtocell plays because they’re one of the few companies that has real-world experience with small base stations [...]

Market update for week of 12 May

Was Airave Sprint’s second choice?
This article makes the interesting assertion that Sprint originally planned to roll out a WiFi dual mode service, but switched to femtocells after the launch of HotSpot@Home by T-Mobile. The author argues that femto was therefore Sprint’s second choice, but it looks to me as though the headline should read [...]

Market update for weeks of 28 Apr & 5 May 2008

StarHub starts femto trial
The Singapore operator is about to start a 6-month consumer trial with 200 customers who take both post-paid mobile and residential broadband services from StarHub.
Telecom Italia Mobile interested in femtocells
Telecom Italia is very interested in deploying femtocells and is in trials with femtocell suppliers, but it wants the cost of femtocell units [...]