Orange’s explains why it believes femtocells are only for the enterprise
Orange EVP and group CTO Marc Fossier told Unstrung that there are three “major issues” with residential femtocells: spectrum management, security, and price. But he believes these constraints apply less in the enterprise. Referring to residential femtocells, he says “no way” rather a lot [...]
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(Also see here for the week’s operator femtocell news.)
Qualcomm announces femto chipsets
Up until now, the major silicon suppliers have held back from developing femto-specific chipsets, so Qualcomm’s announcement is a significant endorsement for the industry. The company says it will offer HSPA+ and CDMA2000 ‘Femtocell Station Modem’ chipsets, including baseband functions, network listen and integrated [...]
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Several operators gave updates on their femtocell plans in Barcelona this week, some presenting in the FemtoZone and others in the main conference.
T-Mobile has completed friendly user trials in Germany, Poland, and the UK, and will start controlled consumer femtocell deployments in Germany in the middle of the year. The trials uncovered some technical problems, [...]
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Femto Forum study finds positive femto business cases – lots of them!
We’ve seen a lot of negative opinion bandied about on the subject of the femtocell business case, and a number of partial reposts. But a new study from Signals Research Group, commissioned by the Femto Forum, aims to put the issue to bed once [...]
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Allow me to pre-empt the headline resulting from Unstrung’s readers poll on femto pricing.
On the other hand, the questions are phrased in such a way that it’s kind of tempting to vote for option 3 so you don’t feel like a numpty. I wonder if they would have got a different answer with these [...]
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This femtozone service demo shows how “virtual fridge notes” can be sent to friends via a Facebook application. The fridge notes are delivered via SMS the moment the recipient’s phone arrives at home and camps onto the femtocell.
This is a “classic” femtozone service example, but I believe this is the first [...]
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TDC to deploy femtocells in Denmark
TDC Mobile says it is working with NEC towards the potential roll-out of femtocells in Denmark in late 2009. The company is currently conducting a trial with “several femtocell access points”. Flemming Hynkemejer, CTO of TDC Mobile says, “Femtocell technology promises to provide our customers with a number of [...]
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In this interview with Mobile Europe, ip.access CTO Dr. Nick Johnson gives his views on the femtocell market and 3G in the enterprise. He also provides some pointers to what ip.access will be showing at Mobile World Congress later this month.
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Portugal Telecom testing femtocells
Portuguese daily Jornal de Negocios reports that Portugal Telecom is testing femtocells for use by its own residential and business ADSL subscribers, but the business model is not yet defined.
AT&T 3G femtocell sighted
Details of a 3G femtocell appeared briefly on the AT&T website last week. The web page has subsequently been taken [...]
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