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| Femtocell market update for the last few weeks | Top |
| Femtocells set to take off in Taiwan DigiTimes reports that Far EasTone will conduct a femtocell trial in Taiwan. According to China Economic News Service , Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone have all added femtocells to their procurement lists and are planning to launch services soon. Meanwhile, Taiwanese manufacturers are also doing well from the femtocell market. Alpha Networks announced that it is producing residential and enterprise femtocells. In a statement that may have lost something in the translation , Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry said it will seek international standardization certification for Taiwan's first locally made femtocell from 3GPP at an upcoming event (possibly a reference to a Femto Forum / ETSI plugfest?). Still in Taiwan, Gemtek expects its femtocell shipments to climb as high as 100,000 units a month before the end of 2010, and analysts expect Sercomm to ship 100,000 femtocells this year. Femtocell momentum builds in the UK T-Mobile UK says it has started offering femtocells to business customers. During an investor day presentation, the company's VP of networks Emin Gürdenli, said femtocells were already in use "with our B2B customers, and that's not just a technical trial." Meanwhile, Vodafone UK is promoting its Sure Signal femtocell to small businesses alongside its One Net Express unified communications service. (Interestingly, it looks like Vodafone Spain is doing something similar, but with a much higher capacity femtocell capable of handling 32 simultaneous users .) Orange has historically pursued a UMA route, but Stewart Baines writing on the Orange Business Services blog is very positive about the "real promise" of "higher capacity femtocells being deployed within the office". T-Mobile US will support Wi-Fi calling on Android, after all After much speculation that T-Mobile US might not support its UMA Wi-Fi calling service on its Android handsets, the company has announced it will offer Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi application for Wi-Fi calling on several Android-based smartphones. This app-based implementation enables UMA to work on a larger range of handsets, but it has limitations compared to a regular UMA service – for example, it does not support handover with the macro network . Senza Fili's Monica Paolini provides further details on the benefits of UMA and Wi-Fi calling here . Femto Forum publishes details of US consumer research Earlier this year, the Femto Forum commissioned Parks Associates to study US consumer attitudes toward femtocells. Detailed results of this study have now been published in a white paper . Light Reading's Sarah Reedy is mildly sardonic about the study, while Infocom has published its findings that consumers seem to be more interested in simple product bundles rather than FMC services (including femtocells). However, the Parks Associates study has some very encouraging findings for the femto market – for example , the 56% of consumers who find femtocells appealing greatly outnumbers the 21% who were neutral-to-negative on their indoor coverage, suggesting that femtocells' appeal extends far beyond the coverage-challenged. What does all that mobile data traffic consist of? According to the Allot MobileTrends report for the first half of 2010, video streaming dominates mobile data traffic , with YouTube accounting for 13% of mobile data worldwide. A separate report from Orange finds that consumers prefer to access Internet services through the mobile browser, rather than Internet-connected apps. But, as The Register explains , it's still signalling traffic from smartphone apps that is causing the disruption and congestion on mobile data networks. In other news… Femtocells feature in Scientific American . Yankee's Chris Nicholl says femto's time is finally coming . Femtocells come in from the cold (Wireless Week) . Ericsson does the sums – small cells are needed! (Slide 14) . Jorge Delrio of Telus confirms the importance of femtocells in LTE . Fierce Wireless' handy femtocell deployment update . Femtocells in EE Times . New York town bans new cell towers . Singapore Airlines introduces in-flight GSM with OnAir . Cable industry scare-mongers about LTE femtocell interference with set-top boxes . ABI's Stuart Carlaw says femto rollout is too slow (to make an impact on data offload) . Windsor Holden wants some 3G coverage . Verizon to introduce tiered data pricing over next 4-6 months . Will Strauss of Forward Concepts believes AT&T's 3G MicroCell will ultimately be free to consumers . David Chambers reports on last month's China Femtocell Symposium . Femtocells go better with DSL than TV … and they are more secure than DECT phones . Ian Scales loves Smart Wi-Fi . Will Franks says WCDMA femto is harder than you think . All your femto tweeters in one place, courtesy of Rupert Baines . LIPA & SIPTO explained (sort of) . ATT praised for MicroCell "social customer support" . MicroCell video . Sure Signal review – recommended! Femtocells a talking point at Mobilize 2010 … and at EmTech . picoChip collaborates with Cambridge Consultants on LTE femtocells . Tata Elxsi announces LTE Femto/Pico solution . Node H says its software is Iuh compliant . HSL's Mark Hay insists there is a market for 2G femtocells . Counterpath granted femto "presence detection" patent . Ubiquisys opens development office in Cambridge . Ubiquisys announces another $5m of funding from Sercomm, UMC and Pacific Venture Partners . Ubiquisys wins Wall Street Journal technology innovation award . ip.access nominated for Best Private Company in Leading Lights awards . ip.access COO Phil Rimell explains India strategy . ip.access' CEO Steve Mallinson makes the GTB Power 100 list ! Tagged: Alpha Networks , Android , Far EasTone , Femto Forum , Gemtek , Kineto , Orange , Sercomm , T-Mobile , UMA , Vodafone | |
| WiMAX in the Wild - Japan | Top |
| It has become a bit silent around WiMAX in the past year or so with Clearwire being the only major network operator deploying the technology and making the news. WiMAX is also deployed in South Korea in the form of WiBro and some smaller networks exist elsewhere. What I didn't know so far was that Japan also has a WiMAX network on here. Here's a picture I've taken on a recent visit to Tokyo in an electronics store that sold WiMAX 3G dongles and notebooks with built in WiMAX cards. The main argument: The theoretical peak data rates are faster than those of the HSPA networks of the competitors. I wonder if that matters in practice? | |
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