Posted on April 19, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Femto Forum & SRG publish comprehensive femtocell business case paper
The full business case white paper from Signals Research Group is now available on the Femto Forum website. It’s hard to sum up all 80 pages in a simple soundbite, but here’s how some of the telecoms press did it…
Telecoms.com says it “appears to be the [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: 3G MicroCell, Airvana, AT&T, business case, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, Iu-h, LTE, Motorola, Qualcomm, Signals Research Group, Sony, Toshiba, Verizon | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 8, 2009 by Andy Tiller
TDC to deploy femtocells in Denmark
TDC Mobile says it is working with NEC towards the potential roll-out of femtocells in Denmark in late 2009. The company is currently conducting a trial with “several femtocell access points”. Flemming Hynkemejer, CTO of TDC Mobile says, “Femtocell technology promises to provide our customers with a number of [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: AT&T, Blue Ocean Wireless, Devicescape, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, In-Stat, ip.access, NEC, picocell, picocells, picoChip, repeaters, StarHub, TDC, U-Verse, WiFi | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 18, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Ubiquisys and Percello announce partnership
Ubiquisys and Percello have announced that they will be integrating Percello’s PRC6000 chip into Ubiquisys’ ZoneGate femtocell. As an investor in both companies, T-Venture might have had a hand in the matchmaking.
So is Ubiquisys ditching picoChip in favour of Percello? Well, not exactly. According to Ubi’s founder and CTO Will Franks, [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI Research, Airave, Airvana, ARCchart, AT&T, CTIA, Femtocell, femtocells, Global Wireless Technologies, Gogo, Ikanos, in-flight GSM, In-Stat, Infonetics, Nortel, Percello, picocell, picocells, picoChip, T-Venture, The Guardian, Ubiquisys, Will Franks | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 25, 2008 by Andy Tiller
ip.access ranks top specialist femto vendor in operator perception survey
More details have been published from Heavy reading’s recent operator perception survey. The operators surveyed ranked their perceptions of femtocell equipment suppliers. Alcatel-Lucent got top marks among the large vendors, while ip.access was the highest ranked among the smaller femto vendors.
Business Week says Airave [...]
Filed under: Market updates, ip.access | Tagged: ABI, Airave, Business Week, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, ip.access, iPhone, RadioFrame, Sprint | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
StarHub starts femto trial
The Singapore operator is about to start a 6-month consumer trial with 200 customers who take both post-paid mobile and residential broadband services from StarHub.
Telecom Italia Mobile interested in femtocells
Telecom Italia is very interested in deploying femtocells and is in trials with femtocell suppliers, but it wants the cost of femtocell units [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI, Alcatel-Lucent, BT Fusion, Ceva, Exradia, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, ip.access, Lime Microsystems, Nokia Siemens Networks, O2, PA Consulting, picoChip, Pirelli, StarHub, telecom Italia Mobile, Ubiquisys, Yankee Group | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 26, 2008 by Andy Tiller
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 [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airwalk, CTIA, Emirates, Ericsson, Femtocell, femtocells, Google, in-flight GSM, In-Stat, ip.access, Qantas, Telco 2.0, Ubiquisys, UMA, WiMAX, Youngwoo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
No time for analysis this week, with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona coming up. Here are the headlines…
ip.access & Mavenir partner for femtozone services
“Together with Mavenir Systems, we are creating a platform for operators to offer a wide range of new mobile phone services for the home. With femtozone services, operators can [...]
Filed under: Connected Home, Market updates | Tagged: ADC, BT Fusion, Cisco, Continuous Computing, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, ip.access, Kineto, Mavenir, Mobile World Congress 2008, Motorola, NEC, Netgear, picoChip, Thomson, Ubiquisys | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 26, 2008 by Andy Tiller
TeliaSonera to trial femtocells (is dual mode FMC a dead end?)
TeliaSonera will soon begin femtocell trials in Sweden and another country, and is planning end-user trials in Q3. One interesting aspect of this is that TeliaSonera already has a UMA-based FMC service called “Home Free”. Whereas Orange and T-Mobile US seem comfortable [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Analysys, Cisco, Femtocell, femtocells, FMC, Frost & Sullivan, IDC, In-Stat, ip.access, nanoGSM, picocell, picocells, RadioFrame, TeliaSonera, Ubiquisys, UMA | 1 Comment »