Top 20 best selling handsets in UK
The list of top 20 selling handsets with contracts from Mobile Today shows the weakest performance of Motorola handsets this year.In the top 20 there are: 7 SonyEricsson, 6 Nokia, 4 Samsung, 2 LG and...
View ArticleFemto cell Architecture
The business case for indoor femto cells has gained increasing traction in the last few weeks, and lots of news comments about various femto cell development companies. For example, check here, here...
View ArticleFemtocell Challenges
In a previous post I talked about the potential benefits of femtocells to the operators as well as consumers. In this post I'd like to investigate the potential hurdles in the road to viable femtocell...
View ArticleFemtocell Forecasts
Cellular News published an interesting short article suggesting that femtocell shipments will reach 36million in 2012, which in my view a rather conservative estimate. The estimate is contingent on a...
View ArticleSonus and the Femtocell backhaul integration with core.
There are as many companies active on the femtocell backhaul integration with IP core as there are Femto cell manufacturers, with Kineto, Sonus and Tatara systems topping the list. Sonus has recently...
View ArticleReuters report on Femtocell featuring ip.access
Reuters made a short report on a femtocell demo organised by ip.access. Check it out here. (Thanks to Mr. Adnan Boustany from PicoChip for sending the link).What I like the most about ip.access's...
View ArticleABI research femtocell vendor ranking results
This has been out for a while, I don't know why I kept delaying linking to it:ABI research has ranked the various femtocell vendors. Check the news release here.Their ranking criteria is based on two...
View ArticleNews coverage of the Femto Forum
Telecoms.com (Informa's telecomm business intelligence reporting outlet) has some interesting and insightful coverage of the Femto Forum meeting that took place in London on first week of July.The...
View ArticleIndoor FemtoCells and content personalisation
One of the tooted selling points of FemtoCells is the enhanced user experience indoors. There is no doubt that in terms of radio coverage the FemtoCell will enable a more uniform and better RF signal...
View ArticleGoogle invests $25 million in Ubiquisys
The recent news of Google's $25 million investment in Ubiquisys is the beggining of a major change in the race to win the Femtocell race.While architecture, coverage and RF performance are some of the...
View ArticleFemtoCells on BBC News
Here is a link to an article on BBC Technology News with a good summary of the case for Femtocells from a user's and operator's points of view.
View ArticleGoogle's Interest in Femtocell technology
So why is Google interested in Femto cells?One view is that Google may be the first new breed of mobile operators. For a green field entrant the prospects of building a distributed network using Femto...
View ArticleMore on Google's interest in Femtocell Technology
...here are more dots to connect:- FCC revises 700MHz band rules to facilitate "new and innovative wireless broadband services for consumers"....read here.- Rumours about Google phone, to be available...
View ArticleThree areas unexploited enough by Femtocell marketing efforts
The three points talked about in every Femtocell customer meeting:1 - Price and potential savings2 - The indoor coverage advantage3 - Architecture and how to integrate with existing network...
View ArticleFemto cell concept propelling "Core" activities
An interesting read on Mobile Europe discussing core network opportunities for Femto cells.
View ArticleFemtocells are much more than cheap telephony
The compelling selling points of femtocells are increasingly becoming more noticeable.The apparent strong compelling factor is the disruptive value proposition in terms of cost of delivering a minute...
View Article40 mil. femtos to be deployed by 2013
Link to Telecom.comInteresting analysis, though it's coming from a market demand point of view. This expectation is contingent on availability of commcercially viable femtoceels, in terms of pricing as...
View ArticleThe business case for femtocells in the Middle East.
Etisalat is the first operator in the Middle East who shows interest in FemtoCells, and therefore they asked us at Ubiquisys to showcase their femtocell on the Etisalat stand at Gitex 2008. They...
View ArticleBringing technological innovation and commercial sense together
The mobile telecomm industry has evolved from few simple be-spoke systems to highly complicated and convoluted solutions that require an army of experts to anlayse and understand. With the myriad of...
View ArticleThe hidden benefits of femtocells
I have spent some time now looking at various femtocell business cases and find it very interesting how creative some of the operators are when it comes to using femtocells to generate new revenue...
View ArticleFemtocells: Small is Beautiful
It's bizarre that some are talking about a 16 call femtocell. The whole idea of a femtocell is that it's a compact consumer device that provides adequate coverage and capacity within the home or place...
View ArticleThe indoor coverage proposition
Mobile access has become a neccessity not a luxury. Mobile operators are morphing and changing into utility-like companies, unfortunately this does not go hand-in-hand with the way mobile technology is...
View ArticleFetmo Access Point: Is the interference problem a big Red Herring?
If Femtocells were to operate on a frequency that is shared with the macro network in a restricted mode (i.e. only specific users can access a particular Femtocell), there is a concern that...
View ArticleIn the US: a federal bill to proposes femtocells in every federal building in...
The bill proposes installation of femtocells and WiFi hotspots in about 9,000 buildings owned and operated by the US GSA, and to be mandatory in any future federal structures. The bill also asks for a...
View ArticleEfficient CellMax Antenna. A good "SmallCell" delayer
I've just come back from MWC'12. Like last year Small Cells featured heavily in the convention, and almost every mainstream infrastructure vendor has something which they claim either support or...
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