Posts Tagged ‘femtocells’
The secret to axing 3G blackspots: you (ZDNet)
Femtocells – short-range 3G base stations that can be installed in your house to improve 3G coverage – offer great promise overseas. But how to convince Joe Bloggs to help blanket the world in 3G coverage? One company has a new approach that’s well worth considering.
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Femtocells In Depth (Wifinet)
At Ars Technica, I explain femtocells: In a long article at Ars Technica, I explain what makes femtocells tick, and whether they wind up as a good deal or not for consumers. I’ve been skeptical for years about femtocells because they are a tricky value proposition for carriers to explain. “Our network is great, but because it’s not, pay us extra money for this thing that we’ve advertised we can…
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Operators Ready to Open up Femtocells, Says Ubiquisys (PC World)
Japanese operator SoftBank Mobile will use femtocells in a so-called open access mode, which allows all subscribers to make phone calls and surf via the device. Femtocell – SoftBank Mobile – Telecommunications – Business – Wireless
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Softbank Mobile to Offer Free Femtocells to Subscribers (cellular-news)
Femtocell vendor, Ubiquisys has announced that it is supplying Japan’s Softbank Mobile with femtocells access points that the operator plans to provide for free along with free ADSL connections, Click here for more .
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Feature: Small is beautiful: put a cell tower in your house (Ars Technica)
Femtocells sound vaguely like a cross between a Feynman diagram and a biology class, but they’re the latest piece of gear that millions of people will soon want in their homes without having missed them before. A femtocell is a small cellular base station designed to provide superior, short-range, indoor cellular coverage in a home or office. The idea behind femtocells is simple: the hardware…
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Femtocell Developer Secures Funding (cellular-news)
Tatara Systems, the developer of SIP-based network solutions for femtocells, has secured US$7 million in additional financing. Click here for more .
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Femtocell Industry Award Winners 2010 (3G and 4G Wireless Blog)
Category 1: Residential femtocell access point design and technology innovation Shortlists: * Huawei – Huawei Home Media Centre * Technicolor – TG872 Integrated Femtocell * Ubiquisys – The G3-mini Femtocell from Ubiquisys/SerComm Winner: Huawei – Home Media Centre “The residential market for femtocells is clearly the driver for attaining mass-market volumes, enabling improved coverage, data…
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Airvana Femto Family Tablet hands-on (SlashGear)
Femtocells: simple home cellular base stations that let you make a call when you’re indoors and you can’t persuade Verizon, AT&T or any of the other carriers to boost their coverage, right? Not if Airvana have their way; the company – who already supply carriers like Sprint with their Airave femto, and who are tipped to be readying a VoIP-capable model for the network – are hoping to turn…
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Femto Forum announces winners of the Femtocell Industry Awards 2010
London, UK – The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced the winners of the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010. The awards recognize outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry. The awards were presented at a gala dinner at the Femtocells World Summit in London last night.
The winners are:
1. Award Category: Residential femtocell access point design and technology innovation
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Survey Finds Femtocells Appeal to 56% of US Consumers (MobileTechNews)
Survey finds consumers unfamiliar with femtocells but after learning about the femtocell and its benefits 56% found them “appealing” with the driver being improved in-home coverage.
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Femto Forum outlines case for mobile data offload using femtocells
New white paper study details how femtocell offload allows operators to cost-effectively manage the rise in mobile data usage while also providing the highest possible quality of service
London, UK – The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today outlined the case for offload using femtocells in a publicly available white paper. The paper outlines how femtocells significantly increase mobile network capacity and efficiency while also lowering operators’ costs and providing an improved user experience for both indoor and outdoor users.
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Survey Finds Femtocells Appeal to 56% of US Consumers (Latest News from Online Car Finance Companies)
International research firm Parks Associates today announced the results of the most comprehensive survey to date of U.S. consumer attitudes to femtocells, conducted on behalf of the Femto Forum. The survey, U.S. Consumer Attitudes on In-Home Mobile Services and Femtocells , found that more than half of U.S. broadband households with mobile phones are interested in femtocell benefits, and are…
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Survey Finds Femtocells Appeal to 56% of US Consumers (cellular-news)
A survey on U.S. consumer attitudes on femtocells found that more than half of U.S. broadband households with mobile phones are interested in femtocell benefits, and are willing to pay for the devices and associated new services. Click here for more .
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Texas Instruments shows off 32-user femtocell at Femtocells World Summit (SlashGear)
I like the idea of a femtocell, but I don’t like the way that mobile carriers have positioned the devices. AT&T is a perfect example. The coverage for my iPhone in my local area is not good. Calls drop, the phone simply won’t ring sometimes, and generally the data speeds are slow. AT&T will sell me a femtocell to shore up the shoddy network by using my WiFi connection at home. I just don’t think…
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Texas Instruments, Azcom Technology and Nash Technologies present the industry’s first live 32-user femtocell demonstration at Femtocells World Summit (PR News Wire )
LONDON, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — FEMTOCELLS WORLD SUMMIT –Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) in collaboration with Azcom Technology, a leader in providing cellular communications software solutions, and Nash Technologies, a wireless communication system development and support comp
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A counterpoint to femtocells – are they really necessary? (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)
I’ve just read Andy Abramson’s long and impassioned blog post about the pointlessness of femtos. As he points out, I’m due to meet him for a few drinks later on this afternoon, so I’m sure we’ll drill down a bit more. In part, I agree with him – WiFi is much better for *certain* applications and use cases. However, I’ll make a few comments upfront. Firstly, WiFi can be a royal pain to set up,…
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AT&T Wrongly Thrown Under the Bus for MicroCell Data Use (Hot Hardware)
The news broke on Thursday that any data that flows through AT&T’s MicroCells, which are their versions of femtocells and transmit voice / data over your broadband, counts against AT&T’s new data caps. Everyone was all over this, screaming about another AT&T misdeed. The non-hysterical view of the issue, however, is: so? First off, we are no fans of the fact that AT&T charges $150 so you can buy…
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WiMAX Forum publishes femtocell standard
New standard will allow vendors to start creating compatible equipment for certification in early 2011
WiMAX Forum Global Congress, Amsterdam – The WiMAX Forum and the Femto Forum today announced the publication of the first WiMAX™ femtocell standard allowing vendors to start developing standardized femtocells and associated network equipment based on the IEEE 802.16e radio interface and profiles. The WiMAX Forum aims to start certifying compatible products in early 2011 to guarantee efficient and effective interoperability between different vendors’ access points and core network equipment.WiMAX femto…
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PicoChip lands $20M more to make femtocells commercially viable (VentureBeat)
Shortly after announcing the design of a new chip that allows wireless base stations to handle far more mobile users — a practical solution to network congestion and dropped calls — PicoChip has brought in $20 million in equity funding to grow fast enough to keep up with demand and stave off an acquisition. The new PicoChip design beefs up femtocells, small base stations that are networked…
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‘Greater’ Femtocells (3G and 4G Wireless Blog)
An interesting slide from the presentation by Prof. Simon Saunders, Chairman of Femto Forum in LTE World Summit. The slide throws more light on the Greater-femtocells I blogged about last year . Related Post: When Femtocells become Picocell .
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Airvana and KDDI R&D Laboratories Achieve Voice Call Routing Optimization and IP Data Local Breakout Milestones Using Femtocells (Latest News from Online Car Finance Companies)
Airvana, and the Mobile Network Laboratory of KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. (hereinafter “KDDI R&D Labs”), the research and development arm of KDDI Group, today announced the achievement of an important milestone in their joint research on CDMA2000 1x voice call routing optimization for sessions between subscribers using femtocells, and on femtocell local breakout for data sessions. Airvana and…
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picoChip Gets a $20M Boost for Femtocells (GigaOM)
picoChip, maker of semiconductors for femtocells, has raised $20 million in funding, bringing its total venture capital raised to $110 million. I wrote earlier this month that PicoChip’s latest silicon could finally create an opportunity for femtocells to gain real adoption. Its investors must agree.
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Vision Shopsters: Global Femtocell Market
Network operators started showing interest in femtocells in 2007, following which the technology evolved from a test product to a mainstream market within a very short span of time. Developed economies such as Japan and Western European nations are expected to be the preferred market for femtocell vendors as these regions have very high rates of mobile and broadband penetration. Such markets are…
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Lime Microsystems’ RF Transceiver IC Selected by Global Wireless Technologies for Universal Access Point Configurable femtocell (Latest News from Online Car Finance Companies)
Lime Microsystems announces that its single-chip multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver has been selected by Global Wireless Technologies for the latest version of its Universal Access Point (UAP™) femtocell, the UAP106/232. The UAP106/232 is a configurable platform for femtocells supporting WCDMA and CDMA2000 standards and is software upgradeable to support 4G LTE. The UAP106/232 uses the…
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Femtocell market update: slow but steady progress- Aarkstore Enterprise
Femtocells took a break from the limelight in 2009 as operator trials took place behind closed doors. They are now reappearing in the public domain, but this is not a sign of an impending rapid increase in uptake. Rather it is a sign of increasing technical maturity and growing comfort among operators about the technology and business case – with some important reservations attached. For more…
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AT&T tiering, femtocells and holistic traffic management (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)
AT&T has finally seen the light and recognised that “true unlimited” mobile data plans are unrealistic, moving instead to tiered offerings . Most of the rest of the world outside the US has long had tiered / capped services for both smartphones and laptop modems, so this starts to bring North America in line with practices elsewhere. However, I’m not too convinced by the details. It’s 200MB/month…
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New Report on Global Femtocell Market – Vision Shopsters
Network operators started showing interest in femtocells in 2007, following which the technology evolved from a test product to a mainstream market within a very short span of time. Developed economies such as Japan and Western European nations are expected to be the preferred market for femtocell vendors as these regions have very high rates of mobile and broadband penetration. Such markets are…
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Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010 Finalists Announced
Winners to be announced at Femtocells World Summit in London on June 23rdLondon, UK – The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced the finalists for the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010. The awards recognise outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry. The winners will be announced at a gala awards dinner on 23rd June 2010 at Femtocells World Summit in London.
The awards were open to the whole industry and are judged independently of the Femto Forum by a panel of distinguished analyst…
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Femtocells Market Assessment | Femtocell Market Forecasts | Femtocells Market (3G Mobile Phones – Published news)
Femtocell Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014 Femtocell systems provide modular value added services delivery of wireless communications and SIP based push technology presence implementing flexibility for people. The femtocells are designed for achieving automation of communication …
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WAN Ethernet / VPLS: Is overhead an issue? (newsletter archive)
VA disconnects Sprint’s voice, data services | Will femtocells ever get their moment? Network World Wide Area Networking Forward this to a Friend > > > WAN Ethernet / VPLS: Is overhead an issue? We’re in the midst of a most interesting conversation at Webtorials on the subject of “Wide Area Ethernet / VPLS – Ready for Prime Time?” This conversation features an in-depth online interview with Geoff…
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