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| Vodafone launches more femtocell services |
| Vodafone launches more commercial femtocell services Vodafone has launched its Sure Signal femtocell in New Zealand in residential (4-user) and enterprise (8-user) flavours – both supplied by Alcatel-Lucent. The residential unit costs NZD 349 (close to the original £160 UK price tag before it was reduced to £50 last year), with the enterprise device costing 3 times as much. A Vodafone broadband connection is required, but otherwise the consumer proposition is very similar to the UK version. According to one early review , the device works well (apart from a few issues with the plug'n'play provisioning). Elsewhere, it's reported that Vodafone Italy has launched an 8-user femtocell called the Vodafone Booster, and Light Reading lists Vodafone Ireland as another femtocell launch. AT&T to give away femtocells Engadget reports that AT&T will offer its 3G MicroCell free to the "top 7.5% of 3G wireless customers identified as likely to experience poor in-building coverage at home or in small offices". At the same time, AT&T is increasing the regular price of the MicroCell from $150 to $200. Other operator news Verizon Wireless is also reported to be giving away femtocells to carefully selected customers . Meanwhile, a rumour spread that T-Mobile is set to launch femtocells in the US this year, but this was later denied by the company. O2 admitted to running femtocell trials in the UK. The company has also launched a programme to provide free Wi-Fi hotspots for both customers and non-customers alike. The aim of the Wi-Fi project is to help offload smartphone data traffic (although apparently only 20% of people who have access to free public Wi-Fi on O2 tariffs actively use it). ip.access launches S8 office femtocell ip.access has announced an 8-user 3G femtocell designed for offices, shops and other indoor hotspots. Unlike residential femtocells, the S8 can support open access, two-way handover with the macro network and real-time alarms (similar to the company's E class picocells). ip.access also released a white paper, ' Creating Flexibility for Small Cells ', explaining the significant differences between enterprise / public access deployments of femtocells compared to residential deployments. April fool's day comes early for Ubiquisys Ubiquisys created a stir by announcing their attocell (a personal femtocell with a 5 mm coverage radius designed to help business travellers circumvent roaming charges). It's rather like the MagicJack femtocell (which had similar aspirations to circumvent licensing restrictions by operating at low power) – except that Ubiquisys proposes to work with operators instead of around them. But it's hard to imagine operators risking potentially illegal use of their roaming partners' spectrum, even if subscribers can be persuaded to buy into the idea of 5 mm coverage. So could this be another exciting-sounding announcement that lacks commercial reality ( remember the FON femtocell, anyone )? Or perhaps it's another attocell April fool's joke which slipped out a few weeks early. In other news… ABI says femto apps are key to success. Review of the FemtoZone at CES. "We'll continue to encourage… development and deployment of femtocells" (FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at CES. Mobile Experts report says small cells will dominate 4G. CNN Money on femtocells. Femtocells are an emerging wave. Femtocells set for a good year. picoChip, CCPU, Ixia collaborate on LTE. Femtocells in New York Times. picoChip welcomes competition (yeah, right!) Network sharing – good or bad for femtocell market? Mark Hay hints at something or other that HSL might do. Tagged: AT&T 3G Microcell , Femtocell , femtocells , ip.access , O2 , S8 , Sure Signal , T-Mobile , Ubiquisys , Verizon , Vodafone NZ |
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