Femtocell market update for week of 9 November 2009

NTT DoCoMo launches MyArea femtocell
Following through on an initial announcement last July, NTT DoCoMo has launched its MyArea HSUPA-capable femtocell in Japan.  According to DoCoMo, the femtocell “creates a private FOMA area in the home as a highly stable wireless environment for high-speed packet communication”.  Pricing is only $5 per month with no sign-up fee [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 30 Mar 2009

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 [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 16 Mar 2009

Infonetics says femtocells will thrive despite the recession
The latest report from Infonetics Research forecasts sales of femtocell and FMC network equipment will grow at a healthy rate through the economic downturn and then will really take off in 2011, hitting $8 billion in 2013.  According to the report’s authors, some operators are seeing the economic [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 4 August 2008

Early Airave customers appear satisfied
Early blog reviews following Sprint’s Airave femtocell launch are enthusiastic…
“I just got my Airave on Tuesday, and so far I am absolutely loving this thing! … All in all I give it a 5 out of 5! The only thing I cannot access is anything that uses the Mobile Broadband [...]

Market update for week of 31 Mar 2008

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, [...]

Market update for week of 17 Mar 2008

Ericsson maintains its resistance to 3G femtocells
This time Ericsson is saying that the chips are too expensive, so they won’t build a 3G femtocell before 2009. But analysts believe the real reason for Ericsson’s resistance is the fact that femtocells threaten the vendor’s core macro cellular infrastructure business. “Ericsson welcomes the femtocell [...]

Market update for week of 18 Feb 2008

Further insights from O2
O2’s Head of Core Network Innovation, John Carvalho gave further insights this week into the operator’s femtocell plans. Interestingly, Carvalho sees femtocell price points stabilising at £50-80, but not before 2009 and not until mass deployments are underway. This is perhaps more realistic than Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin’s comments last [...]

Market update for week of 7 Jan 2008

North American CDMA carriers to launch commercial femtocells in 2008
Tom Jasny, Samsung VP of wireless and broadband networks, was bullish about femtocell prospects in comments made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. He says Samsung has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators, and expects nationwide rollouts within the [...]