Posted on October 10, 2009 by Andy Tiller
AT&T expands 3G MicroCell availability
According to AT&T’s website, the 3G MicroCell is now available in Atlanta (29 stores) and Columbia (3 stores). This follows last week’s launch in Raleigh (11 stores) and the original market of Charlotte NC (19 stores), making 62 stores in total. One delighted customer commented, “Holy crap – AT&T 3g Microcell [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: AT&T 3G Microcell, Femtocell, femtocells, ip.access, ITU Telecom, picocell, picocells, Qualcomm, smart meters, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Vodafone Access Gateway | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 13, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Telstra CTO wants femtocell apps
Despite having probably the best mobile network in the world (HSPA+ at 850 MHz with “spectacular” indoor coverage), Telstra CTO Hugh Bradlow is interested in femtocells. He doesn’t want to use them for coverage, which he feels “sends the message that the operator has not built out its network properly”, but [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: 3G MicroCell, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Femtocell, femtocells, Huawei, ip.access, Juniper Research, Lime Microsystems, Motorola, Percello, picocell, picocells, picoChip, Qualcomm, Sprint AIRAVE, Tele2, Telstra, Ubiquisys, Vodafone Access Gateway, Zynetix | Leave a Comment »
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 June 15, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Sprint offers its femtocell to MVNO and cable partners
Sprint has announced that it will white-label its AIRAVE femtocell, enabling wholesale partners to offer their own branded CDMA femtocell services. This includes MVNOs (such as Virgin Mobile USA), as well as wireline and cable operators.
“The femtocell offering is not only a differentiator in the marketplace [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: 900 MHz re-farming, Airave, Cisco, Elisa, Femtocell, femtocells, LTE, Qualcomm, Sprint, Vodafone Qatar | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 27, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Vodafone explores metro femto
Vodafone has been experimenting with outdoor deployment of LTE metro femtocells. The company’s head of new technologies and innovation Andy Dunkin says that the concept is strong, but requires a low cost solution for wireless backhaul at 50-100 Mbps.
Femtocells and the consumer electronics industry
Fierce Wireless wonders whether femtocells could bring the large [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airvana, Analysys Mason, AT&T, Femtocell, femtocells, magicJack, Qualcomm, Sony, TeliaSonera, Toshiba, UMA, Vodafone | Leave a Comment »
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 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 February 22, 2009 by Andy Tiller
(Also see here for the week’s operator femtocell news.)
Qualcomm announces femto chipsets
Up until now, the major silicon suppliers have held back from developing femto-specific chipsets, so Qualcomm’s announcement is a significant endorsement for the industry. The company says it will offer HSPA+ and CDMA2000 ‘Femtocell Station Modem’ chipsets, including baseband functions, network listen and integrated [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airvana, Cisco, Femtocell, femtocells, in-flight GSM, ip.access, Jean-Baptiste Vezin, Kineto Wireless, Mavenir, Mobica, Orange, picoChip, Qualcomm, Ryanair, Sagem, Steve Mallinson, Ubiquisys | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 15, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Softbank femtocell deployment
Unstrung reports that Softbank Mobile in Japan has installed 20,000 femtocells from NEC / Ubiquisys, and that it is also checking out equipment from Huawei. But there are, apparently, still some technical and regulatory issues standing in the way of mass market deployment.
Orange goes for 3G UMA
Orange is upgrading its “Unik” dual mode [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ip.access, femtocells, Femtocell, Ericsson, Orange, Unik, UMA, Softbank, Ubiquisys, T-Mobile, NEC, Cable & Wireless, WiMAX, Percello, Qualcomm, Nick Johnson, Nick Rickards | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Qualcomm invests in ip.access
Our news received a lot of coverage this week (see below for a partial listing). Heavy Reading’s Gabriel Brown thinks that Qualcomm has made a good investment choice – “ip.access is one of the best femtocell plays because they’re one of the few companies that has real-world experience with small base stations [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI, Aruba Networks, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, FMCA, ip.access, picoChip, Qualcomm, SafeNet, standards, Thomson | Leave a Comment »
