Femtocell market update for week of 16 November 2009

SFR to launch ‘Home 3G’ femtocell
Adverts for SFR’s Home 3G femtocell have appeared on the Internet.  It’s a standalone femtocell that will work with any ISP.  The price is ­­free with a 24-month contract, €5 per month for 12-month commitment or €199 to buy the box outright.  Like the Vodafone Access Gateway, Home 3G is [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 10 November 2008

Mobilkom announces femtocell trials
Austrian operator Mobilkom has said that it is piloting 35 residential and business femtocells from Huawei.  The pilot project will run until the second quarter of 2009, with the final product offering to be launched in the first half of next year.
SoftBank – as you were
Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Chief Strategy Officer for SoftBank [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 25 August 2008

iPhone 3G problems are due to network issues

A study commissioned by Wired with voluntary participation of 3G iPhone users around the world has revealed that reported problems with data speed “have more to do with carriers’ networks than with Apple’s handsets.”  The results of 2,600 download speed measurements plotted here reveal significant variations in the [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 18 August 2008

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 [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 16 June 2008

RadioFrame Slams Kineto Claims
RFN clearly couldn’t stand back and watch Kineto spinning up a victory story in the femtocell standards battle.  Some strong language in this Unstrung interview with RFN’s GM EMEA Mark Keenan (who is also a Femto Forum board member).  This will make the upcoming Femto Forum gathering even more lively than usual.
Dean [...]

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 21 Jan 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]