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| Femtocells maintain momentum as we head into next week's World Summit |
| Operator news ahead of the Femtocells World Summit Orange Romania has launched its Extra Signal enterprise femtocell for business customers ( announced previously ). The device supports 16 voice calls and data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. Strangely, Extra Signal provides coverage over only 800 square metres, which means it has a range of only about 16 m (much less than a typical residential femtocell). 16 voice channels provides 8.85 Erlangs of capacity (assuming 1% blocking), which is enough for about 180 people (assuming 50 mErl per person). Looks like the device is designed for rather crowded locations! SKT is updating its data femtocell . The new 2FA device will support 16 users and have both integrated Wi-Fi and 42 Mbps HSPA+ data speeds (dual carrier) based on Picochip technology. (Clearly this is a forward-looking announcement.) Zain has announced that it will launch enterprise and residential femtocell services in Kuwait this year based on NEC's femtocell solution. Indian operator Aircel says it will use femtocells for in-building coverage as it rolls out its 3G network. Bharti Airtel is also reported to be evaluating femtocells in India. Vodafone Netherlands believes that femtocells are "a logical addition" to the mobile network, according to the company's head of mobile networks and service platforms, Rene Herlaar, speaking at the Mobiel NL conference in Amsterdam. Camillo Carlini from Telecom Italia's Home Network and Handset Engineering group will tell the Femtocells World Summit next week that " femtocell applications can make an immediate impact on people's lives ". T-Mobile US has made its UMA-based Wi-Fi calling service free . It has also proposed the service to the FCC as a solution for emergency workers in disaster operations. Meanwhile, Orange UK says its own Wi-Fi calling service, Signal Boost, is carrying " millions of calls every month " [sounds more impressive than it is – do the maths]. The UK Mobile Review tested Vodafone's Sure Signal femtocell, and asked the other UK operators about their plans for femtocells . T-Mobile said it "wouldn't be rushed into a decision," whilst O2 have "no further information at this time". Thailand's new entrant mobile operator TOT says it used 2G femtocells with satellite backhaul to re-establish communications quickly after April's floods, which affected 2 million people. Cisco / ip.access leads 3G femtocell market, says Infonetics In its latest femtocell equipment market share report for 1Q11, Infonetics Research forecasts that the market will hit $300 million in 2011 . Cisco and ip.access have the leading market share in 3G femtocells based on the world's largest femtocell deployment with AT&T in North America. Vendor announcements ip.access has launched OysterCatcher , a diagnostic tool for optimising femtocell radio performance. As well as enabling field issues to be fixed rapidly, OysterCatcher also provides key data for enhancing the algorithms used by the femtocell Access Point to manage radio resources and optimise performance automatically, aiding the development of true Self Organising and adaptive networks of femtocells. Ubiquisys has announced a collaboration with Intel for caching content locally at femtocell Access Points . Intel chips will be used to build a content delivery network into small cells at the edge of the network so that popular content can be cached at cell sites. For example, a video of a goal could be cached at a cell in a football stadium to save backhaul bandwidth when spectators download it. Elsewhere, AirWalk's EdgePoint Pron has become the first femtocell to incorporate Qualcomm's UltraSON technology for minimising radio network interference, and the bizarrely named ' Wazco' has come out of stealth mode to announce an LTE metro femtocell . In other news… If you think enterprise and residential femtocells are basically the same, think again … Telstra argues in favour of in-flight GSM (using the terrestrial network) . The Femto Forum outlines LTE femtocell architecture options . Picochip claims 80% of the femto chip market . Rupert Baines explains metro femtocells . Etherlive uses Vodafone femtocell to provide coverage at events . IBW interviews Morten Tolstrup . Steve Costello on femtocells . Nice review of AT&T's 3G MicroCell . Mobile operators will spend $67 billion on Basestation deployments in 2011 … … but Analysys Mason thinks operators may be spending more than they need to in anticipation of faster data growth than will actually transpire . Dean Bubley says "the telco-isation of WiFi is starting to look quite Machiavellian and unrealistic" . OMG! The World Health Organisation classifies cellphones as "possibly carcinogenic"! Kenneth Foster explains why you shouldn't get too worried . Tagged: Aircel , Airtel , Airwalk , Femtocell , femtocells , Infonetics , ip.access , Orange Romania Extra Signal , Qualcomm , SKT 2FA , T-Mobile , Telecom Italia , Ubiquisys , UltraSON , Vodafone , Zain Kuwait |
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