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| Femtocell market update for week of 16 Aug 2010 |
| Sprint begins shipping 3G Airave Engadget broke the news that Sprint has started shipping the EV-DO upgrade to its AIRAVE femtocell. The new box, made by Airvana, supports 6 simultaneous calls as compared to 3 on the original CDMA 1X version (made by Samsung). Sprint spokesman Mark Ellliott told Fierce Wireless that some Sprint customers will receive the device for free (assessed on a case by case basis). There is no additional monthly charge for using the femtocell, but all minutes, data and text messaging used with the device will come from the customer's monthly rate plan option. (Meanwhile, someone is selling instructions on eBay describing how to work Sprint's system and get the original AIRAVE for free. The instructions cost $14.95.) Light Reading has spotted that Verizon is hiring a product manager for "delivery of a business-class voice and EVDO femto," but the carrier has declined to comment on its 3G femtocell plans. SKT announces femto plans South Korean operator SKT has announced plans to introduce 10,000 "data femtocells" by the end of 2011 as part of an effort to increase network capacity 6-fold and support unlimited data tariffs. According to Jang Yong-ha, executive vice president of the network division at SKT, Wi-Fi is not a sufficient strategy. "1 million Wi-Fi zones will cover a limited 0.1-0.3% when looking at it on a national scale," he says. The femtocells will be used for homes, schools and workplaces with up to about 20 network users. "Data femtocell could be used for traffic-crowded small areas that required mobility while Wi-Fi is utilized for big-scale traffic flow at a fixed spot," Jang explained. Here are further details in Korean . BelAir announces outdoor picocell / metro femtocell BelAir Networks has announced the BelAir100SP Strand Picocell , a compact wireless base station designed for mounting on existing cable strands to deliver mobile broadband via both licensed (2G/3G) and unlicensed (Wi-Fi) spectrum. The cable strand provides power and backhaul. BelAir's VP Product Marketing Dave Park told Mobile Europe that the device "enables a symbiotic relationship between mobile operators and the cable operators". The 100SP immediately won a prize for "Best New Idea Likely to Succeed " at the CableLabs® Innovation Showcase. Mobile data traffic offload to increase 100x by 2015 ABI Research has forecast that mobile data offload will grow 100-fold by 2015. About 16% of mobile data is currently offloaded; this will increase 3 times to 48% by 2015. By then, data traffic will have grown 30 times, so there will be 3x times 30x (=almost 100x) increase in the amount of offloaded traffic. ABI says that a variety of approaches will be needed to enable this offload, including femtocells, Wi-Fi, mobile content delivery networks, and media optimisation. AT&T appears to have had some success with its Wi-Fi offload strategy, with only 56% of video traffic to its iPhones now delivered over 3G (which, W-Fi zealots should note, is still the majority). This compares to 72% of video traffic on Android phones (offered by all networks) being carried over 3G . However, consumers increasingly expect Wi-Fi to be free or charge – free hotspots now outnumber paid locations in US . With 2.6 billion Wi-Fi connected devices expected in 2014 , will best-efforts Wi-Fi networks be able to deliver a reasonable user experience? Shopkick launches in-store location service Best Buy has deployed an in-store mobile couponing system using technology from a start-up called shopkick . The service requires the user to start up an iPhone / Android app, which senses when they walk into Best Buy and downloads rewards to their phone. Apparently it uses proprietary technology not based on GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation. Some have suggested that femtocells would be ideal for enabling this kind of in-building, close-quarters location sensing application. One advantage of using a femtocell is that the user would not need to start an application in order to make the service work. In other news… Study suggests mobile carriers may be underestimating the extent of their coverage problems, especially indoors . Dan Borislow claims the MagicJack femtocell is not on hold, after all (yeah, right). An explanation of why CDMA2000 femtocells are more expensive than W-CDMA (but actually I think it has more to do with the fact that CDMA requires separate solutions for voice and data). Residential, enterprise, metro femto – but in which order? David Swift proposes that operator should charge for use of femto location APIs. Does UMA still matter? Brilliant announces NTP timing algorithm for picoChip. Vanu gets $2 million funding. Zahid Ghadialy highlight's Argela's FWS presentation on femto applications. Tweets The 3G Microcell has worked awesome for our signal issues where we live. Thanks to AT&T for their top notch customer service & help in getting my 3G MIcroCell up & running. Enjoying full 3G coverage @ my house. what you need is a 3g microcell for home. now that makes a difference. i got one and it is amazing In the end, Cisco really went above and beyond to help solve my AT&T 3G MicroCell GPS antenna issues, btw – I have to give them kudos. YEAH BUDDY! 5 bars of 3G out here in Southeast Nowhere thanks to the MicroCell!!! Score one more for the nerds!!! Tagged: BelAir , Femtocell , femtocells , picocell , shopkick , SKT , Sprint , Verizon |
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