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Articles tagged with: Femtocells and Backhaul
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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Could femto-cells bring more problems than they solve?
..ity relief in residential and small business areas. In most deployment models, femtocells take advantage of a subscriber-provided backhaul path to provide licensed cellular service in a manner analogous to the commonly used WiFi router. However more
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Strategy Analytics 2009 Wireless Trends Outlook
..g. Cost control will be a top issue. Although dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellular handsets, femtocells and HSPA upgrades represent new platforms for driving down costs, there is a more significant issue of how operators will manage capacity enhancements, more
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Femtocells – to Be or Not to Be?
Although mobile operators are increasingly optimistic about femtocells, there are many doubts circulating around this new technology as it struggles to resolve key challenges such as functionality and cost. Operators believe that they are capable of cutting costs and retaining more customers, but proof remains to be seen. In the last femtocells study, Frost & Sullivan is skeptical, outlining multiple challenges, that do not look like they could be resolved by the end of 2008. more
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Femtocell access point market: great potential, tough hurdles
..ty for 2G femtocells in developing countries, driven by cheaper mobile voice calls within the home, but this is not likely to be a booming market compared to 3G3G femtocells could have far-reaching consequences for the telecoms industr more
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Femtocells create new opportunities in the enterprise market
.. such as DSL and transmission sharing. 3G femtocells can operate using cheap transmission solutions, such as DSL and have greater potential to support non-voice services than 2G picocells. "Femtocells and picocells will be important in more
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Mobile-Only Operators Forced to Use Fixed Networks to Boost Revenues
.. fixed network access for mobile operators will increase as they start to deploy femtocells (or indoor base stations), which depend on broadband connections for backhaul to their mobile networks." Vodafone offers DSL services through whol more
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36 Million Femtocell Shipments in 2012
The wave of interest in femtocells continues to gather momentum, and with a number of sizeable carrier RFPs currently in circulation, the market looks set to see rapid growth over the next few years. By 2012 the market for femtocells looks set to represent 36 million shipments with an installed base of nearly 70 million femtocells serving over 150 million users. more
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Femtocells Could Upset Cellular/WiFi Dual-Mode Handset Market
..led handsets, however, may have to compete with the upcoming opportunity of femtocells, the new, small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments. Like Wi-Fi access points they connect to the customer's own broad more
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