Posted on September 29, 2008 by Andy Tiller
ip.access has once again been named amongst the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, by The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100.
Now in its eighth year, The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies based on their sales growth over the past 3 years. 2008 is the second [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Japan’s SoftBank getting ready to launch 3G femtocells
The big announcement at the “Femtocells Asia 2008″ conference was SoftBank’s plan to launch 10,000 femtocells in Japan from January 2009, which may turn out to be the first commercial 3G femtocell deployment anywhere in the world. SoftBank CTO, Junichi Miyakawa, presented details of the technical solution from [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Users say how Sprint’s Airave could be improved
Airave users commenting on the Engadget site say that Sprint should remove the monthly fee (e.g. “I don’t mind buying the box and maybe even a one time fee for setup, but monthly recurring charges to fix bad signal issues? Hmmm… Nope.” Others, not understanding the legal constraints, [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Softbank femtocell deployment
Unstrung reports that Softbank Mobile in Japan has installed 20,000 femtocells from NEC / Ubiquisys, and that it is also checking out equipment from Huawei. But there are, apparently, still some technical and regulatory issues standing in the way of mass market deployment.
Orange goes for 3G UMA
Orange is upgrading its “Unik” dual mode [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by Andy Tiller
DoCoMo updates its femtocell offering
Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo said it is planning to use a new version of Mitsubishi’s femtocell for its “Home Area” service. The new femto supports HSPA with 14.4 Mbps downlink speeds and 5.7 Mbps uplink. DoCoMo’s original Mitsubishi femtocell has been in use since the autumn of 2007, although without much [...]
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