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| Femtocell market update for the weeks of 22 & 29 Nov 2010 |
| Avea to launch femto service in Turkey Turkish operator Avea will launch a femtocell service in Q3 2011 using femtocells from Argela (based on picoChip silicon). This is the first announced femtocell win for Argela, which is owned by Avea's parent company Turk Telekom. picoChip claims Argela's will be the first Iuh-based femtocell in the market (which is slightly odd, as picoChip claimed the same honour for Contela last month based on a forthcoming launch with SKT later this year). Argela's line-up of femtocell products includes residential, enterprise, and outdoor femtocells (although some analysts are sceptical about outdoor use ). The vendor is also promoting an application server for femtozone apps. Other operator news Vodafone has been testing its Sure Signal femtocells in open access mode . According to CTO, Jeni Mundy, trials are underway to see if the femtocell could be used to improve coverage in public venues such as hotels. Elsewhere, heavy snow in the UK has led to a 50% increase in Sure Signal calls , and one happy subscriber reported getting the Sure Signal box for free . Further details of SFR's femto-enabled Neufbox Evolution have emerged ( including a promotional video ). A tweet from Nagarajan Gopalakrishnan tells of his chat with a TDC executive where he " got a glimpse of … Femto take of TDC ". (TDC have been quiet on femtocells since their Feb 2009 announcement of a potential rollout with NEC, then scheduled for late 2009.) At the SDR'10 conference in Washington DC, Verizon CTO Dick Lynch discussed the use of micro, pico and femtocells , as well as Wi-Fi, in future heterogeneous networks. Meanwhile, analyst Peter Jarich summed up a two-week trial of Verizon's Network Extender femtocell: " Setup = super easy. Coverage enhancement = not as good as expected ." Enterprise femtocells As DigiTimes reports, femtocells are expanding into the enterprise market . Current Analysis Research Director Peter Jarich says he prefers the term "small cells" (as coined by Alcatel-Lucent) to cover applications of femto technology beyond the home. Peter's view is that the term "picocell" would make sense, but that it "carries a connotation of strict operator control from a deployment and backhaul perspective." Ubiquisys has a similar view . The idea with "small cells", apparently, is that operators don't have control. I'm not so sure about this. ip.access' experience with picocells and femtocells in enterprises and public spaces is that operators absolutely do want to control these deployments. Whether you call them picocells or enterprise femtocells, they need to be managed differently from residential femtocells. Current Analysis survey of the femto ecosystem players Current Analysis has updated its survey of the views of femtocell vendors . Perhaps not too surprisingly, expectations for femto apps, LTE femtocells and Iuh femto deployments have slipped to the right compared to the previous survey in March. Interestingly, the use of SIP as a femto integration technology has moved earlier (possibly due to CDMA femtocell deployments). Further thoughts on femtocells and Wi-Fi BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones has discovered just how easy it is to hack a Wi-Fi-connected smartphone . "From now on," he says, "I will be switching off the Wi-Fi button on my phone whenever I leave the security of my home or office network". Keith Day points out that femtocells don't suffer from such security loopholes , so it looks like femtocells have an advantage – especially with some US cities backing away from their plans for free Wi-Fi . But in case anyone thinks Wi-Fi is a goner, AT&T has followed the trend in launching a MiFi device (which creates a Wi-Fi hotspot using the 3G network to connect back to the Internet), and Orange has launched an Android UMA phone in the UK . In other news… Stewart Baines sees a long tail of femtocell apps. Episode 2 of the femto soap is available at Wilson St. Report on the recent CDG / Femto Forum webinar. Mobile networks move indoors. Washington Post reports on smartphones and femtocells. Carriers "jealous of repeaters" (huh?). David Chambers shares some thoughts on the femto product lifecycle. The incredibly shrinking cellular network (part III). Stephen Rayment argues the case for small cells / picocells. Could Virgin Wi-Fi move herald small cell rollouts? LIPA, SIPTO and IFOM. Rewheel says volume caps will kill mobile data market growth. |
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