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| Femtocell market update for weeks of 30 Aug & 6 Sep 2010 |
| News from the China Femtocell Symposium I've had fun with Google Translate this week trying to figure out what has been going on at the China Femtocell Symposium . China Unicom said that they have "completed all aspects of femto trial preparation, including technical and standards". The carrier's 3G Inn femtocell service is "currently in beta stage in a number of cities nationwide," with a particular focus on university campuses and enterprises. In addition, China Unicom is launching "a variety of innovative applications," including family alerts and location-based push services. There is also confirmation of SKT's plans to deploy up to 10,000 femtocells (literally translated "pemtoseleul") next year. Meanwhile, Samsung's femtocell business is set to " enhance the value of global sales and marketing director of Samsung Jiyoung Lee " (well, we know what you mean), and the Femto Forum announced it is to open a China office to help drive the development and roll out of femtocells in the country. More femto market forecasts IDATE has updated its femtocell market forecasts in a new report, ' Femtocells – worldwide market 2010-2014 '. The email flyer reveals a forecast of 11.7 million AP shipments in 2013, increasing to 23 million in 2014. This is quite a bit lower than recent forecasts from ABI , In-Stat and Dell'Oro . However, with only 200k shipments forecast for 2010 (exceeded long ago, by my calculations), the IDATE report looks under-cooked. Carl Weinschenk believes there's no longer any disagreement in the telecoms industry that femtocells are "transitioning from futurist technology to contemporary tool" . He points out that "milestones are being met and the time for mass rollouts are near – or even here". Meanwhile, Phil Marshall at Tolaga Research is apparently in a different universe , expressing the view that femtocells have "yet to gain a meaningful presence in the marketplace," and that they need to be repositioned to overcome "lackluster market performance". Greek style Vodafone Access Gateway gets a review An early adopter of the Greek version of Vodafone's femtocell has posted a review of his experiences with the Huawei-made device. "Very good speech quality without sound delay" is reported (on a 15 Mbps broadband link), with data speeds of 3.6 Mbps down / 0.384 Mbps up. The device consumes 7-8 Watts. As with the majority of femtocell deployments, hand-out from the femtocell to the macro network is supported, but not hand-in. According to the report, it takes a couple of days to activate new numbers on the femtocell's whitelist. This is similar to the situation when Vodafone first launched its UK femtocell, but since then the process has been fully automated and new phones added to the whitelist can use the Sure Signal femtocell immediately. 2G femtocells, anyone? Hay systems has announced its 2G femtocells are shipping , and Mark Hay has been making a case that a 2G femtocell + Wi-Fi is better than a 3G femtocell . Meanwhile femtocell users in the real world are finding " not much of a need to turn on Wi-Fi with [a 3G femtocell] running ", and picoChip's Andy Gothard explains why a " femtocell is simpler and practicaller than Wi-Fi ". ip.access announces contract with Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel has chosen ip.access to supply picocells for deployment across India . According to Mark Pittick, Vice President Strategic Accounts, ip.access is supplying about 3,000 units to Airtel in the first phase of deployments , initially in five circles, but eventually extending to all 24 circles. The company also has another, as yet unannounced, contract with a second Indian carrier. Over the top model for femtocells works best David Chambers points out that half of commercial femtocell deployments require subscribers to buy the carrier's own wireline broadband service as well. Interestingly, all the volume is in the other half of the market, where the femtocells can work with any broadband connection (most notably AT&T and Vodafone UK, having between them the large majority of femtocell shipments to date). Take my advice… Everyone seems to be advocating free femtocells this week. David Chambers provides a convincing back-of-the-envelope business case for free hotel femtocells . CCPU's Todd Mersch advises AT&T that free femtocells are the answer to its "PR nightmare". Even GigaOM is making a case for subsidised femtocells. In other news… AT&T explains its network improvements in New York (see episode 12 – femtocell mentioned at 31 mins 20 sec) . And again: the femtocell "works like a charm". AT&T MicroCell review: "it's the best cell reception I've had in my entire life". Mobile Phone Expert survey finds 42% of UK over-35s are happy about in-flight calling. Telecom Asia says femtocells need services (but why do they think Vodafone has seen "lackluster adoption"?) … perhaps they got it from Phil Marshall at Tolaga Research. picoChip launches PC7300 femto reference design, claims $50 femto BoM. China's FemTel Communications develops picoChip-based TD-SCDMA femtocell (being tested, presumably by China Mobile). Simon Saunders on the "quiet femtocell revolution". Dean Bubley wonders why BT is offloading mobile data for free with its Wi-Fi app. QCOM shows off its femto chip at the London Science Museum. Qualcomm's Prakash Sangam explains just how small a femtocell is. No way is that a picocell! SpiderCloud provides competition for femtocells in the enterprise with, er…, a femtocell … Or did they mean competition for DAS? Want a new MicroCell logo for your iPhone4? Lime offers design kit and reference design for its multi-band, multi-standard femtocell RF transceiver. Tagged: China Unicom , Femtocell , femtocells , Hay Systems , SKT , Vodafone Access Gateway |
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