Posted on March 8, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Femtocells won’t feature in Verizon’s initial LTE launch
There has been lots of talk about rolling out LTE networks “from the indoors out”. Verizon CTO Dick Lynch said last December that Verizon would introduce LTE femtocells shortly after rolling out its LTE network, but this week Verizon confirmed that femtocells are not part of the LTE [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2008 by Andy Tiller
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 [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2008 by Andy Tiller
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 [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Japan’s SoftBank getting ready to launch 3G femtocells
The big announcement at the “Femtocells Asia 2008″ conference was SoftBank’s plan to launch 10,000 femtocells in Japan from January 2009, which may turn out to be the first commercial 3G femtocell deployment anywhere in the world. SoftBank CTO, Junichi Miyakawa, presented details of the technical solution from [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Softbank to launch femtocells in October
Softbank’s femtocell launch is being planned for October. Interestingly, they have been using in-home repeaters to test the concept, which suggests a basic coverage proposition – repeaters don’t provide any of the other, more interesting benefits that femtocells offer (private cell capacity for the home, homezone discounts, femtozone services…).
Softbank [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2008 by Andy Tiller
The French government is apparently advising its citizens that users should “avoid calling when reception is poor”. It looks as though the public will become increasingly sensitised to the fact that mobile phones transmit at higher power when in poor coverage – for example, indoors.
Some are already seeing this as a potential selling point for [...]
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