Posted on August 29, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Wall Street Journal covers femtocells
A WSJ article this week (full text here) points out that “carriers are reluctant to talk about coverage problems…making femtocells a tough product to market to consumers”. However, Kevin Packingham, senior VP of product development for Sprint, is quoted as saying “advertising will ramp up with next-generation femtocells since it [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2009 by Andy Tiller
70 million femtocell users of worldwide by 2014
According to a new report from Berg Insight, femtocell shipments will grow from 200,000 in 2009 to 12 million worldwide in 2014, by which time there will be almost six femtocells per macro base station, and 70 million regular femtocell users. These are impressive statistics, but ZDNet Asia [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Journalist “gives up on femtocells” (for no good reason)
Writing in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Charles Arthur says he would “be really happy if the mobile operators would start rolling out femtocells”, but believes they are instead promoting the “opposite phenomenon” – WiFi routers that use 3G mobile broadband service for backhaul. (Here’s a [...]
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