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| Operators go femto crazy | Top |
| Operators go femto crazy Alcatel Lucent has announced that Telefónica (Movistar) will deploy its femtocells for residential and business customers in Spain. (This is interesting, as Movistar has already launched a residential femtocell with Huawei .) Megafon has selected NEC to provide a residential and enterprise femtocell solution. Network Norway's femtocell service has finally launched . Vodafone Ireland has put up a website for its femtocell service , which is now available through the operator's retail stores (review here ). The product is available to Vodafone DSL customers for €49 (or €99 to other customers). FAQ's available here . picoChip claims its chip is inside . AT&T has begun its free femtocell offer, as seen here . Customers seem to like it . ( This happy customer was able to get a free femtocell despite not being included in the offer.) Du has confirmed that it is planning a commercial femtocell rollout in the UAE in 3Q11 with Alcatel Lucent. Zain has selected Alcatel-Lucent for a femtocell trial in Saudi Arabia . Partner Communications may offer Israel's first femtocell service with Alcatel-Lucent. (Competitor Pelephone is believed to have tested femtocell products from Nokia Siemens Networks.) T-Mobile US has said that 5 million subscribers use its Wi-Fi calling service, and has reiterated that it has no plans for 3G femtocells. Orange's VP for Network Architecture and Design, Alain Maloberti, remains sceptical about femtocells (although his reasoning appears to be remarkably uninformed). Telstra's CTO Hugh Bradlow also reveals himself as a femto unbeliever . The latest Informa femtocell market status report highlights the fact that femtocell deployments have more than doubled in the past 12 months . Small cells are big Several macro network vendors have announced new RAN products which acknowledge the trend towards small cells and data traffic offload. Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio solution is perhaps the most radical . Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced a Wi-Fi offload solution. Even Ericsson has succumbed to the logic of small cells with its Antenna Integrated Radio . Jan Häglund, VP of Ericsson's networks business unit, talked up the HetNet strategy, and even used the word 'picocell' in an interview with Mobile Europe. Other vendor announcements… Freescale enters the femto market with its QorIQ Qonverge basestation-on-chip portfolio … … Airvana announces itself the first customer for QorIQ Qonverge . Mindspeed demos LTE small cell silicon solution . Octasic introduces platform for HSPA+ pico / femto . ip.access partner SiRRAN supplies Florida National Guard with emergency GSM phone network . Airspan and ip.access collaborate on 2G and 4G outdoor pico RAN . Roshan deploys the Airspan / ip.access solution in Afghanistan . Alcatel Lucent announces a metro femto product (David Chambers gives the details ). Tecore announces "All-In-One 3G-4G Enterprise Femtocell System" . Powerwave announces combined LTE / Wi-Fi picocell . CCPU supports Qualcomm FSM femto chipset . picoChip demonstrates LTE femtocell … … and introduces next generation PC3008 femtocell chip . AirWalk, Mindspeed and Lime Microsystems collaborate on LTE small cells . Ubiquisys shows off G3 micro-mini (is that the 'attocell' positioned as a conventional femto?) and other femto products at MWC. Ubiquisys and CTTC collaborate on LTE network simulator . Ubiquisys leverages Akamai for software download (huh??) Tecom builds femto AP . NEC collaborates with Aricent for Indian femtocell business . Netgear announces second generation MF100H femto AP . Argela integrates AirHop SON technology . ip.access and Ubiquisys amongst the 25 hottest mobile companies . In other news… The second Femto Forum / ETSI femtocell plugfest was successfully completed. MCI examines femtocells (see page 22) . Telecoms.com interview with yours truly at MWC . Femtocells move into the enterprise . Fierce Wireless failed to notice the buzz around femtocells and offload at MWC … … other analysts saw femtocells and offload as one of the hottest topics . ABI says the femto market is still inhibited by legislation . No more cell towers ? Earl Lum thinks Wi-Fi beats femto . David Chambers' MWC femto preview … and roundup . Picocells & DAS belong together . Craig Mathias takes a second look at femto Lessons from flying and floating picocells (pretty much an ip.access monopoly) . Cisco has updated its Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast. Tellabs says data growth will kill telco profits in 3 years . Tagged: AT&T , du , Femtocell , femtocells , Megafon , Movistar , Network Norway , Orange , Partner Communications , Pelephone , T-Mobile , Vodafone , Zain | |
| 2011 events I'm attending or speaking at | Top |
| This is a quick post to list various conferences or other events I'm expecting to speak at or attend, primarily in H1 2011. Please let me know if you're interested in meeting at one of these, developing custom material such as research studies or white papers, or indeed you're looking for a speaker or moderator for your own event. Email: information AT disruptive-analysis DOT com 14th March, London: TEN (Telecom Executive Network) Next Generation Mobile Broadband 30th-31st March, London: Next Generation Core Networks 5th-7th April, Palo Alto: Telco 2.0 New Digital Economics Americas 11th-13th May, London: Telco 2.0 New Digital Economics EMEA 17th-18th May, Amsterdam: LTE World Summit 23rd-25th May, London: Managed Services & Network-Sharing 24th-26th May, London: Avren Connected Home Global Summit 14th-16th June, Berlin: Mobile Data Offloading 22nd-23rd June, Singapore (tentative) Telco 2.0 New Digital Economics Asia Pacific 27th-29th June, San Francisco (tentative) eComm Emerging Communications In H2 2011, I'll probably be at another couple of Telco 2.0 events in Europe & the US, plus at least one of the IIR Broadband Traffic Management series of conferences. | |
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