Femtocell market update for week of 30 Mar 2009

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 [...]

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 weeks of 20 & 27 October 2008

AT&T announces 3G femtocell trial
AT&T says it will start femtocell trials later this year.  “As the nation’s leading provider of both wireless and broadband, it makes sense that we would examine the potential benefits of femtocells for our customers,” an AT&T spokeswoman said.  “We’re currently doing testing in our labs and a trial is planned [...]

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 4 August 2008

Early Airave customers appear satisfied
Early blog reviews following Sprint’s Airave femtocell launch are enthusiastic…
“I just got my Airave on Tuesday, and so far I am absolutely loving this thing! … All in all I give it a 5 out of 5! The only thing I cannot access is anything that uses the Mobile Broadband [...]

Femtocell market update for week of 30 June 2008

Rumours of Airave nationwide deployment
Engadget reports that Sprint’s Airave (CDMA-1X) femtocell will be on sale across the USA from July 15th for $99. The comments on this page reveal some interesting consumer reaction to the product – albeit from a fairly technical audience. Business Week also reports the news, and concludes “for consumers [...]

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, [...]