Posted on May 25, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Case for LTE femtocells
Femto Forum chairman Simon Saunders laid out the case for LTE femtocells at the LTE World Summit in Berlin. In a nutshell, maximising spectrum re-use they will ensure more users receive peak data rates more of the time, especially inside buildings. “By adopting femtocells operators can roll out a much better performing [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Cellcom picks Starent & AirWalk for CDMA femtocell deployment
Cellcom is planning to roll out CDMA femtocells to its enterprise customers in Wisconsin. Unlike Sprint and Verizon, both of whom use Samsung’s femtocell solution, Cellcom will use AirWalk’s recently announced EdgePoint PRO femtocell access point (which supports up to 28 simultaneous users) and Starent’s XT30 Femto [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
AT&T’s CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets confirms femtocell trials
Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, AT&T’s iPhone chief, Ralph de la Vega, spoke about AT&T’s plans for femtocell market testing in 2009.
T-mobile also confirms femtocell trials
T-Mobile International CTO Joachim Horn says T-Mobile is testing the femtocell user experience in a [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Airave to launch nationwide from 17 August
Following market trials in selected cities, Sprint’s Airave CDMA 1X femtocell will launch nationwide in the USA from 17 August. Pricing options have changed significantly from the trial. The service now costs $99.99 (for the box itself) + $4.99 per month (excluding taxes and various Sprint surcharges) [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Andy Tiller
There was a lot of femto noise at CTIA this week in Las Vegas. With the exception of the ip.access / Sonus live demo, and one or two partnership announcements, most of the news was about CDMA femtocells…
Verizon to launch femtocells in 2008
“Our plans are to deploy femtocells in 2008,” said Verizon Wireless CTO, [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2007 by Andy Tiller
RadioFrame partners with NSN
You may remember that Nokia Siemens Networks is promoting a femtocell architecture based on an Iu interface from the Access Point to a gateway connecting to the core network. Rather than building its own Access Point, NSN is encouraging other vendors to build APs for certification against its universal gateway. [...]
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