Femtocell market update for week of 22 June 2009 – part 2

Femtocell applications & services

Femto Forum announces Services SIG
The Femto Forum has announced the creation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) with a mission to develop a framework that will simplify the creation and deployment of femtocell applications.  The aim is to ensure application developers can use a common development environment to build femtocell services that [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 22 June 2009 – part 1

Operator news from the Femtocells World Summit
It’s been a big week for femto news on the back of the Femtocells World Summit in London.
Vodafone announces UK consumer femto launch
Vodafone opened the Femtocells World Summit by announcing that the Vodafone Access Gateway will be available in the UK from 1st July.  The device is a standalone [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 15 June 2009

First Iu-h demo
picoChip, Starent and Continuous Computing are set to show the world’s first demonstration of the new 3GPP Iu-h standard.  picoChip is supplying the femtocell silicon and PHY software for the Access Point, Continuous Computing is supplying the femto software stacks for the AP and Starent is supplying the femto gateway.  The demo will [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 8 June 2009

Sprint offers its femtocell to MVNO and cable partners
Sprint has announced that it will white-label its AIRAVE femtocell, enabling wholesale partners to offer their own branded CDMA femtocell services.  This includes MVNOs (such as Virgin Mobile USA), as well as wireline and cable operators.
“The femtocell offering is not only a differentiator in the marketplace [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 1 June 2009

AIRAVE economics
Here’s how one Sprint subscriber calculates the value of his AIRAVE femtocell:
“It was costing us $32 per month for our unlimited long distance land line and it would cost us an additional $25 per month to have the AIRAVE.  So we are saving $7 per month with the AIRAVE, with the added bonus of [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 25 May 2009

Have we lost interest in 3G femtocells?
Last week’s press coverage from the LTE World Summit has caused some speculation that the industry has abandoned 3G femtocells.  For example, IridiaBlog comments, “we have seen some announcements that would seem to point towards femtocells becoming part of LTE deployment rather than trying to make them an adjunct [...]