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Articles tagged with: Opex and Femtocell
Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK
..le. However, femtocells are clearly not there yet. In early deployments the priority is to prove that they work from technical and customer perspectives. Therefore, to gain sufficient penetration, and make the business case work, Vodafone will more
Related Tags: vodafone-uk, femtocells, churn, option, UK
Study Projects Positive Femtocell Business Case
The Femto Forum has published the results of research into the femtocell business case that it commissioned from Signals Research Group (SRG), a US-based wireless telecommunications consultancy. The report found that femtocells can generate attractive returns for operators by significantly increasing the expected lifetime value of a subscriber across a range of user scenarios. Subscribers in turn could realize cost savings and other benefits from femtocells. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-data, wimax, itu, lte, capex, mobile-broadband, femto-forum, femtocells, target
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
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, mts, 3gpp, backhaul, femtocells, radio-network-controller, umts, handover
Femtocell market forecast to reach $630M in 2010
.. relying on traditional cellular network architecture; the prospect of capex and opex savings combined with new personal broadband service opportunities is generating intense interest from operators in femtocells, and more vendors are developin more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, mobile-data, w-cdma, capex, infonetics-research, cdma2000, femtocells
3-4 Year Investment Before Profiting From Femtocells
The femtocell industry is at a crossroads. Carriers are directing some of their attention away from the technical aspects of the solution and more towards the fundamental questions around how they can make money out of the technology and what their go-to-market strategies should look like if they are to obtain the best results. more
Related Tags: abi-research, backhaul
Fixed Mobile Faces Problems Without Increased Vendor Co-Operation
Informa Telecoms & Media is forecasting that there will be 170 million Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) subscribers by 2012 generating US$33.4 billion of revenue, but caution that without an increase in cooperation between all of the value chain players involved the industry faces an uphill struggle. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence, ims, fmc, dual-mode
Over 100 Million Femtocell Users by 2011
In the near future, femtocells--small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments--will be adopted by operators with great enthusiasm. The lure is of greater network efficiency, reduced churn, better in-building wireless coverage, and the abilities to shape subscriber data usage patterns and to build platforms upon which fixed-mobile convergence services can be realized. A new study from ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 there will be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points worldwide. more
Related Tags: abi-research, femtocells, iptv
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