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 February 14, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Femto Forum study finds positive femto business cases – lots of them!
We’ve seen a lot of negative opinion bandied about on the subject of the femtocell business case, and a number of partial reposts. But a new study from Signals Research Group, commissioned by the Femto Forum, aims to put the issue to bed once [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airave, Airvana, AT&T, Facebook, femto business case, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, Hay Systems, iPhone, LTE, mimoOn, Mobile World Congress, nano3G, nanoGSM, NEC, Obama, Panasonic, picocell, picocells, samsung, SFR, Steve Mallinson, Ubiquisys, Verizon, Yankee Group | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 20, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Telefónica O2 prepares new femto trial
Unstrung says that Telefónica O2 Europe is planning a new femtocell consumer trial early next year, and implies that new vendors may be involved. The article doesn’t say where the trial will be, but it mentions a previously announced UK trial involving NEC and Ubiquisys. Telefónica O2 has also been [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airave, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Digimoc, dongle dock, Femtocell, femtocells, Huawei, in-flight GSM, NEC, picoChip, share dock, Sheriff Popoola, Steve Mallinson, Telefonica O2, Think Femtocell, Ubiquisys | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 13, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Verizon CTO talks about femtocell plans
Mark Wegleitner revealed some of Verizon’s thinking on femtocells in a recent interview with Telephony Online…
“On femtocells and dual-mode phones: We’re planning for trial of femtocells. Both had obstacles. In one case, the femtocell cost was a problem. In other case, the availability of dual-mode phones was a problem. Both [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Carl Weinschenk, Chris Zombolas, Dean Bubley, EMC Technologies, Femtocell, femtocells, in-flight GSM, ip.access, Keithley, Kineto Wireless, Martin Sauter, Motorola, Natasha Tamaskar, NEC, NextPoint, O2, Sense About Science, Simon Saunders, Steve Mallinson, Thierry Samama, Verizon | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 1, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Mobile Europe’s Keith Dyer interviews ip.access CEO, Steve Mallinson at the Femtocells Europe 2008 event in London.
Filed under: Media coverage, ip.access | Tagged: Femtocell, femtocells, ip.access, Keith Dyer, Mobile Europe, Steve Mallinson | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 22, 2008 by Andy Tiller
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 [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Dean Bubley, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, Genband, ip.access, Kineto, Manish Singh, NEC, NSN, RadioFrame, Starent, Steve Mallinson, UMA | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 12, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Posted on February 19, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Operator femtocell trial announcements
O2 announced femtocell trials in the UK. Their current lab trial will be extended to 500 UK users in the summer, and O2 hopes to launch femtocells commercially in 2009. The business case is about adding extra capacity to the O2 network to cope with explosive data growth caused by [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ip.access, femtocells, Femtocell, Airvana, ABI, Telefonica O2, picoChip, T-Mobile, TeliaSonera, Femtozone services, Vodafone, Netgear, BT Fusion, Kineto, Steve Mallinson, Chris Gilbert, ShoZu, Sonus, Starent, BitWave, Contela, Juni, Aricent, 2Wire | 1 Comment »
