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| Femtocell market update for week of 13 Sep 2010 |
| Movistar launches its residential femtocell service Telefónica has launched its Mi Cobertura Móvil femtocell in Spain ( originally announced in July this year ). Apart from the €9 per month fee and the requirement for a Telefonica 3 Mbps ADSL broadband line, which we already knew about, the Mi Cobertura Móvil website and FAQ page provide some additional details. For example, the Huawei-made Access Point uses a SIM card for authentication, supports a 10 number whitelist, and (unusually for femtocells) does not support handover in either direction with the macro network. Interestingly, the registration process involves receiving a password via SMS; I wonder if that might be a problem for subscribers who want the femtocell to provide network coverage at home? Sprint's free femtocell – pressure for rivals? Bloomberg suggests that Sprint's free femtocell offer will put pressure on AT&T and Verizon to be more aggressive with their own femtocell marketing efforts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, spokespersons from all three operators attempt to play down the possibility of a mass femtocell giveaway, but analyst Craig Moffett says "One of the real puzzles is why carriers haven't subsidized femtocells in larger quantities." FemtoHub also points out that recent research by the Femto Forum and Parks Associates strongly suggests the power of femtocells as a competitive differentiator for operators. ip.access signs femto technology agreement with Qualcomm ip.access has signed a femtocell technology development agreement with Qualcomm , allowing the Cambridge company to develop femtocells using Qualcomm's Femtocell Station Modem chipset platform. This week, ip.access also announced the opening of a dedicated R&D centre in Pune , India ( picture & interview here ), complementing last week's news of a contract with Bharti Airtel. picoChip launches PC333 chip for metro femto applications picoChip CTO Doug Pulley says the company's new PC333 chip will be sampling in Q4 this year . With 32 channels and full Local Area Basestation standard compliance, the chip is intended for use in outdoor 'femtocell' ( actually picocell ) deployments – an idea that is growing in popularity . Airvana confirms exit from UMTS femto market Following recent rumours, Airvana has posted an entry on its blog confirming a decision to discontinue its HubBub UMTS products in order to focus on CDMA and LTE femtocells. Is T-Mobile USA abandoning UMA? T-Mobile US offers one of the two flagship UMA services worldwide (the other being Orange France). However, by failing to confirm UMA support on its Android handsets , the company has cast doubt over the future of its Hotspot@Home service. UMA competes with femtocells by providing voice over home (and public hotspot) Wi-Fi networks using specially adapted dual-mode handsets. Openet morally outraged by femtocells? Openet thinks "no one has noticed" that femtocells benefit operators by piggyback on the end customer's broadband connection (what planet have they been on, I wonder?). The policy and charging vendor proposes cheaper pricing for femtocell data. So is Openet really morally outraged by femtocell pricing, or are femtocells just a convenient PR bandwagon for highlighting the company's technology? (Having said that, I have to agree that differential pricing for femtocell data would be a decent thing for operators to do.) Alcatel-Lucent publishes small cells consumer research ALU has published the results of its research into consumer attitudes to a variety of femtocell marketing propositions. The study forecasts more than 34 million femtocell users in the US, UK, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan by 2014, at which point the market will be worth over €6 billion. In other news… China Unicom claims advantage over rivals with its 3G femtocell. ABI publishes data offload report. Here's how to get a Kindle working with Sure Signal. Tagged: Airvana , AT&T , Femtocell , femtocells , ip.access , Mi Cobertura Movil , Movistar , Openet , picocell , picocells , picoChip , Qualcomm , Sprint , T-Mobile , Verizon |
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