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Femtocells tipped to save operators over $5bn
News Mobile operators could make "significant savings" on network infrastructure costs by deploying femtocells. Analyst Informa Telecoms & Media has calculated that savings of up to $5.3bn (£2.8bn) or more could be made on network infrastructure costs...
[August 14, 2008, 10:39]
Femtocells may usher in next-gen mobile networks
News Femtocells could help speed the arrival of next-generation mobile-broadband networks, such as WiMax and LTE (long-term evolution), the future roadmap of 3G. Saunders added: "It isn't a technology that we think is specific to just one of the...
[July 1, 2008, 10:47]
Femtocells gather steam after interoperability pact
News Femtocells — mobile base stations which piggyback off DSL to boost mobile reception indoors — could have inched a little closer to the consumer's living room. The Forum said its members have agreed a single common approach for integrating...
[May 22, 2008, 8:52]
Vodafone 'looking into' 3G femtocells
News However, femtocells are designed to improve 3G mobile-broadband coverage by rerouting data use off the operators' cellular networks and onto wired DSL connections where possible. Analyst Andrew Parkin-White, from the firm Analysys, said in a...
[January 25, 2008, 15:02]
T-Mobile pushes femtocells
News Femtocells are small, cellular base stations that make use of DSL to boost signal coverage indoors. When it comes to femtocells, "standardisation and automation" will be key, according to Gurdenli, who added that proprietary hardware is just "not...
[January 18, 2008, 7:32]
Femtocells may solve operators' 3G woes
News However, there is another way, according to a new report from analyst Analysys, Femtocells in the consumer market: Business case and marketing plan. Market demand for ubiquitous access to mobile services is making the case for femtocells — small...
[November 26, 2007, 14:56]
Mobile WiMAX Femtocells: Big Challenges to Thinking Small
White Papers Mobile WiMAX femtocells may be beneficial in some deployments, especially in suburban or rural residential areas, where it might not be cost-effective for operators to deploy a dense network of macro base stations.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Mobile operators urged to focus on enterprise
News Greater use of femtocells and picocells, better enterprise tariffs and expanded mobile email are just some of the ways mobile phone operators could try to lure corporates as they look to increase their revenues from business customers.
[July 19, 2007, 8:13]
Home base stations developed
News Netgear has become the first major manufacturer of networking equipment to incorporate femtocells into its home gateways. Femtocells are small base stations for home or small offices which re-route mobile phone calls onto a wired telecoms network.
[June 27, 2007, 11:38]
Network-sharing key to driving 3G services
News Emerging technologies such as femtocells and LTE (long-term evolution — the intended evolution of 3G) will require substantial investment in the near term. Dr Alastair Brydon, co-author of the report, said in a statement: "Mobile operators face...
[March 3, 2008, 8:52]
T-Mobile invests in UK femtocell company
News Femtocells are mini base stations for the home or small office. Femtocells are fundamental to the future of mobile," said Axel Kolb, a fund manager at T-Mobile Venture Fund, on Monday. Chris Gilbert, the chief executive of Ubiquisys, said on Monday...
[March 3, 2008, 13:58]
Wi-Fi is bad for you - proof!
Blog One potential victim of the hysteria would be femtocells, which are, all said and done, mini-base-stations for the home or office. Nonetheless, he pointed out that femtocells emit about a hundredth of the wattage of Wi-Fi routers, and of course...
[May 24, 2007, 13:12]
Converged services could slash telecoms bills
News Analysys suggests in-building femtocells — essentially mini mobile base-stations — could be the answer. By using femtocells to offer "home zone" pricing, where mobile minutes cost less if calls are placed within a certain area such as a company's...
[March 9, 2007, 17:19]
WiMAX still begins with a Why
Blog Comment He also had some very cogent things to say about femtocells and how they cause all sorts of logistical problems. To simplify horrendously; when you bung a few femtocells on the network, they look to the network occupancy planning software like...
[February 15, 2008, 0:50]
Operators want fewer new mobile masts
News T-Mobile recently announced it was investing in Ubiquisys, a UK-based company that makes femtocells, which are mini-base-stations that can be installed in homes and offices to route cellular data onto fixed-line networks.
[March 6, 2008, 14:38]
Cisco buys into UK femtocell firm
News Femtocells are effectively small, 3G, mobile base stations that can be installed in a home or small office to route calls and mobile data usage onto a DSL-based IP network, rather than that traffic being carried over the operator's cellular network.
[January 23, 2008, 12:04]
Big problem now, solution on the way
Talkback However, with the new picocells for businesses (and for homes, femtocells), and with the possible use of the GSM spectrum for 3G, we'll see that change over the next couple of years. Sorry to hear of your problem Hawaii-5-o.
[November 17, 2006, 10:14]
CeBIT: Europe's biggest IT show opens
News On the mobile side, ZDNet.co.uk will be looking at how femtocells — mini base stations for the home or small office — could change the way in which mobile networks are deployed by operators. Europe's biggest IT trade show, CeBIT, will open its...
[March 3, 2008, 15:45]
Cable & Wireless, Orange join forces on FMC
News Cable & Wireless's FMC system will use low-power GSM spectrum for in-building coverage, powered by picocells (the big brother cellular tech of femtocells), rather than Wi-Fi, which is used by BT's rival Fusion service.
[March 6, 2008, 8:00]
BSkyB to buy Amstrad for £125m
News The deal will give BSkyB an in-house set-top box design team, which it says could lead to new boxes and new services getting delivered more quickly to users — something that will be important as the possibilities for home services expand to...
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
