Femtocell market update for week of 28 September 2009

Engadget reviews AT&T’s 3G Microcell
AT&T expanded the rollout of its 3G Microcell to Raleigh in North Carolina this week, enabling Engadget to get their hands on one for testing.  “Without getting all long-winded on you,” they conclude, “the long and short of it is this: yeah, it really does work.”  Here are some of the [...]

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 17 November 2008

KTF working on femtocells
KTF, Korea’s second largest mobile operator, has announced that it is collaborating with Huawei on the development of femtocells (presumably WCDMA).
Pictures of SFR’s femtocell
This article in French says that SFR is still experimenting with femtocells, and shows a picture of an SFR branded femtocell (Ubiquisys flavour) plugged into [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 30 June 2008

Rumours of Airave nationwide deployment
Engadget reports that Sprint’s Airave (CDMA-1X) femtocell will be on sale across the USA from July 15th for $99. The comments on this page reveal some interesting consumer reaction to the product – albeit from a fairly technical audience. Business Week also reports the news, and concludes “for consumers [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 9 June 2008

Will SFR be first with femtocells in Europe?
“Sources” said this week that SFR will put femtocells on sale in France before the end the year.  One factor driving SFR is Orange’s “Unik” dual-mode FMC service, which offers a similar customer proposition to femtocells albeit with different technology.  Another is SFR’s acquisition of Neuf Cegetel, France’s [...]

Market update for week of 21 Apr 2008

Rumours about NSN building femtocells
A report from Taiwan suggested that Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to make its own femtocells with a Taiwanese manufacturing partner.  Up until now, NSN’s strategy has been to build a Femto Gateway that works with femtocell CPE from Airvana and others.  NSN denied that it’s strategy is changing, saying “In [...]

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 December 2007

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. [...]