Posted on March 16, 2009 by Andy Tiller
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 [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: Airvana, AT&T, Embarq, Femtocell, femtocells, ip.access, LTE, Percello, picoChip, RadioFrame Networks, Thomson, Ubiquisys, universal femtocell, VoLGA | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
AT&T’s CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets confirms femtocell trials
Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, AT&T’s iPhone chief, Ralph de la Vega, spoke about AT&T’s plans for femtocell market testing in 2009.
T-mobile also confirms femtocell trials
T-Mobile International CTO Joachim Horn says T-Mobile is testing the femtocell user experience in a [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: AeroMobile, Airave, Analog Devices, AT&T, Cisco, Femtocell, femtocells, Future Nine, Malaysia Airlines, Nitzan Kon, Philip Rimell, picoChip, T-Mobile, Thomson, Ubiquisys, Zahid Ghadialy | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Qualcomm invests in ip.access
Our news received a lot of coverage this week (see below for a partial listing). Heavy Reading’s Gabriel Brown thinks that Qualcomm has made a good investment choice – “ip.access is one of the best femtocell plays because they’re one of the few companies that has real-world experience with small base stations [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI, Aruba Networks, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, FMCA, ip.access, picoChip, Qualcomm, SafeNet, standards, Thomson | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI, CTIA, Ericsson, Femtocell, femtocells, Forward Concepts, ip.access, Low Power GSM, Nokia Siemens Networks, picoChip, Softbank, T-Mobile, Thomson, Ubiquisys, Vodafone | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2008 by Andy Tiller
No time for analysis this week, with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona coming up. Here are the headlines…
ip.access & Mavenir partner for femtozone services
“Together with Mavenir Systems, we are creating a platform for operators to offer a wide range of new mobile phone services for the home. With femtozone services, operators can [...]
Filed under: Connected Home, Market updates | Tagged: ADC, BT Fusion, Cisco, Continuous Computing, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, ip.access, Kineto, Mavenir, Mobile World Congress 2008, Motorola, NEC, Netgear, picoChip, Thomson, Ubiquisys | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 24, 2007 by Andy Tiller
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. [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: ABI, AeroMobile, Air France, Airvana, AT&T, Ericsson, femtocells, in-flight GSM, Nokia Siemens Networks, OnAir, Orange, RadioFrame, Rethink Research, Thomson, Unik, Verizon | Leave a Comment »
