Articles tagged with: Femtocells

Small Cell Forum & WBA Cooperate to Integrate Wi-Fi Hotspots & Small Cells

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the Small Cell Forum have announced that they will work together to integrate Wi-Fi hotspots and licensed small cells. more

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Femtocells Outnumber Macrocells In USA

According to Informa Telecoms & Media's new quarterly market status report, femtocells now outnumber conventional outdoor cell sites in the United States marking a major milestone in the evolution of mobile networks. Conservative estimates suggest there are currently 350,000 femtocells and around 256,000 macrocells in the US. Furthermore by March 2011, there are expected to be at least twice as many femtocells as macrocells in the US. Over the past quarter the total number of global femtocell deployments has increased to 17 alongside six further commitments. more

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picoChip Develops LTE Femtocell Development Kit

..prise and residential femtocell deployments. We forecast that by 2014 shipments for LTE femtocells will reach 20 million annually, with most LTE femtocells supporting 3G in multimode." The core of the product is a software-defined LTE modem that more

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366,000 Picocells to be Deployed by 2013

Picocells - the "big brothers" of the increasingly familiar femtocells - have not enjoyed rapid or massive adoption so far. However ABI Research estimates that in 2013, there will have been cumulative deployments of about 366,000 picocell devices worldwide. While not a huge number in itself, that represents a 38% compound annual growth rate over the years from 2008. more

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Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK

..iety is the best strategy for selling femtocells to date, although we still see some major barriers limiting uptake. For customers on tariffs of £60 per month or more the device is free, something we believe that a majority of femtocells w more

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Tektronix Extends Mobile Network Monitoring Capability for Femtocells

..ktronix Communications' femtocell monitoring solution enables operators adopting femtocells to ensure the same level of QoS in their femtocell networks as they have come to expect in their mobile network with the ability to monitor and troubles more

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Femto Forum Outlines Case for LTE Femtocells

The femtocell trade body, the Femto Forum today outlined the case for LTE femtocells at the LTE World Summit in Berlin. The principal performance benefit that femtocells bring to LTE, cited by the Femto Forum, is that they will ensure more users receive peak data rates more of the time, especially inside buildings where the vast majority of mobile broadband data is consumed and where the service quality is lower than outside. femtocells achieve this by maximising spectrum re-use and by ensuring power, and therefore network capacity, is not wasted by trying to penetrate buildings. more

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Ubiquisys Unveils Further Details of Self-Organising Femtocells

..meet the requirements of a specific mobile operator customer, the system consists of modular femtocells providing "lego blocks" of 3G coverage that automatically work together to serve any size or shape of building. The main advan more

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Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells

Signals Research Group has completed a whitepaper on the business case for femtocells as part of its ongoing femtocell business modeling initiative with the trade group, the Femto Forum. The study found, across a wide variety of scenarios considering different regions of the world, the business case for femtocells is strong---often doubling the customer lifetime value---and does not depend on any one critical factor or assumption in order to generate a favorable outcome. Further to this, the research demonstrated that femtocells can dramatically reduce the growing financial costs made by heavy mobile broadband data users on the mobile network. more

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Femtocells to Dominate Market for Indoor Cell Coverage

While femtocells were virtually nonexistent in 2006, and deployed by one operator in 2007, they will make up 61% of small cellular base station revenue by 2013, reports In-Stat. more