Femtocell market update for week of 27 July 2009

Yet more experiences with the Vodafone Access Gateway
In addition to ip.access’ un-boxing video, there have been a number of interesting updates this week as VAG users start to stress their new femtocells.
Think Femtocell’s David Chambers reports femtocell data speeds comparable to WiFi on the 802.11b network in his home (with lower latency on the femto).  [...]

Vodafone femtocell unboxing

Unboxing, registering and starting to use the Vodafone Access Gateway (click to play video).

Femtocell market update for week of 20 July 2009

More experiences with the Vodafone Access Gateway
Here are some observations after my first few days with Vodafone’s new femtocell:

Call quality and data speeds are good.
Hand-out from the femtocell to the macro network works fine, even when driving away.
Hand-in doesn’t work.  However, my calls don’t drop when entering the femtozone and walking right up to [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 13 July 2009

Vodafone Access Gateway reviews
The Vodafone Access Gateway made it to the Sunday Times gadget of the week, but Paul Rasmussen at Fierce Wireless believes that Vodafone is “adopting a very quiet marketing strategy to its femtocell deployment”.
Andrew Grill says “the experience of ordering and setting up the femtocell was not perfect”, and he had to [...]

Femtocell market update for weeks of 29 June & 6 July 2009

Following a reprimand this afternoon from Femto Forum chairman Simon Saunders , here’s an attempt to catch up with the last two weeks…
DoCoMo to launch HSPA femtocell later this year
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has given its femtocell an upgrade (pic), with plug’n’play provisioning and HSPA for faster data connections.  Interestingly, DoCoMo says the new [...]

Femtocell + iPhone 3G + Facebook = fridge notes

Here’s Mobile Europe’s video of ip.access’ Femtocell Industry Award winning ‘virtual fridge notes’ demo, shown at last week’s Femtocells World Summit in London.
More Mobile Europe videos from the event can be found here.

Femtocell market update for week of 22 June 2009 – part 3

Some brief notes on other announcements from last week…
Femtocell Industry Awards 2009

The winners of the Femto Forum’s inaugural Femtocell Industry Awards were announced at a dazzling gala dinner.  ip.access picked up awards for the nano3G picocell / enterprise femtocell (in the design and technology innovation category) and for our Facebook virtual fridge notes demo (in [...]