Femtocell market update for week of 9 Mar 2009

AT&T includes femtocells in major 3G investment plan
This week AT&T announced plans to invest around $12 billion in its broadband networks (wireless and wired) in 2009.  As well as adding 2,100 new cell sites across the US, AT&T also highlighted “customer trials leading toward general availability of AT&T 3G MicroCell offerings, which utilize femtocells and [...]

Femtocell update for weeks of 29 Dec 2008 & 5 Jan 2009

AT&T recruiting for femtocell consumer trials
It’s reported that AT&T is contacting some of its customers asking if they’d like to test femtocells.  Ars Technica quotes a survey it received from a reader who was contacted: “AT&T’s new product is a small, security-enabled cellular base station that easily connects to your home DSL or Cable Internet, [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 8 December 2008

AT&T excited about Q209 femtocell launch
John Stankey, president and CEO of AT&T’s operations, said AT&T is validating femtocell technology now with customers and employees.  ”We expect that we will be into a broader-scale metropolitan deployment the second quarter of next year,” Stankey said. “We are really excited about this…I don’t know how you compete in [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 29 September 2008

Maxis plans femtocell trial
Maxis, Malaysia’s leading mobile operator, plans to trial femtocells by year end.  Head of Radio Technologies, Denis Seek Kwai Yin, told the Femtocells Asia 2008 conference in Kuala Lumpur that Maxis is interested in using femtocells to implement home zone tariffs and location tracking services such as intruder alert.
Ericsson & Tatara collaborate [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 1 September 2008

DoCoMo updates its femtocell offering
Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo said it is planning to use a new version of Mitsubishi’s femtocell for its “Home Area” service.  The new femto supports HSPA with 14.4 Mbps downlink speeds and 5.7 Mbps uplink.  DoCoMo’s original Mitsubishi femtocell has been in use since the autumn of 2007, although without much [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 23 June 2008

News from the Femtocells Europe 2008 conference in London and the subsequent Femto Forum meeting

The femtocell industry is remarkably friendly. Here’s picoChip’s Rupert Baines (my partner in crime in Working Group 1 at the Femto Forum) with Yoav Volloch and Shlomo Gadot from chip competitor Percello.
Comcast to deploy WiMAX femtocells
Comcast SVP Dave Williams said during [...]

Market update for week of 12 May

Was Airave Sprint’s second choice?
This article makes the interesting assertion that Sprint originally planned to roll out a WiFi dual mode service, but switched to femtocells after the launch of HotSpot@Home by T-Mobile. The author argues that femto was therefore Sprint’s second choice, but it looks to me as though the headline should read [...]