Archive for the 'Femtocells' Category
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that it has added 3G femtocell chipsets to its product roadmap. The Company will be offering Femtocell Station Modem™ (FSM™) chipsets that will be the industry's first to utilize the broadband speeds of 3GPP HSPA+, in addition to utilizing CDMA2000®, including 1X and EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B. The chipsets will include baseband functions, network listen and integrated RF capabilities for all major wireless bands. The chipsets also will feature innovative techniques addressing the issue of interference between femtocells and the macro network. Sampling is currently scheduled for the second quarter of ...
Posted on 8th March 2010
Under: 3G, CDMA, Femtocells, Qualcomm |
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that it will showcase some of the most advanced innovations in the wireless space, transforming the way individuals and communities live, learn, work and play during the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 (Booth 8B53, Hall 8), Feb. 15-18 in Barcelona. The Company's demonstrations will feature next-generation mobile technologies and services designed to drive wireless growth and develop new markets, new segments and new business models. Highlights of the exhibit include LTE, LTE Advanced, dual-carrier HSPA+, Brew Mobile Platform™, devices based on the Snapdragon™ mobile computing platform and FLO™ mobile broadcast technology, Plaza ...
Posted on 12th February 2010
Under: 3G, CDMA, Femtocells, Internet, Qualcomm, Verizon, WiFi |
AT&T 3G MicroCell acts like a mini cellular tower in your home or small business environment. It connects to AT&T's network via your existing broadband Internet service (such as DSL or cable) and is designed to support up to four simultaneous users in a home or small business setting. With AT&T 3G MicroCell, you receive improved cellular signal performance for both voice calls and cellular data applications like picture messaging and surfing the Web.
Posted on 22nd September 2009
Under: 3G, AT&T, Browser, Femtocells, Internet |
A small plug-in box that will significantly improve customers’ mobile phone signal in their homes has been announced today by Vodafone UK.
Available online and in store from the 1July, the Vodafone Access Gateway service is the first of its kind anywhere in Europe. A neat box, similar in size to a router, plugs straight into any home broadband line to bring customers improved and more reliable 3G coverage indoors.
Quick and easy to install, the Gateway works with all 3G handsets and can support up to four voice calls at any one time. Customers will no longer ...
Posted on 24th June 2009
Under: 3G, Femtocells, Handset, Vodafone |
Femtocell based services used by 3G mobile subscribers will generate in excess of $9bn per annum by 2014, a new study from Juniper Research determined.
The Femtocells research found that Femtocell access points will increase to multi million unit quantities over the next two to three years. With continued growth in the developed nations in North America, the Far East and China and Western Europe, these regions together will account for 90% of service revenues by 2014.
Femtocells are a winning strategy for Mobile Network Operators The Femtocell industry has seen landmark developments recently in areas such as ...
Posted on 17th June 2009
Under: 3G, Femtocells |
Marking an industry first, Sprint wholesale partners can now take advantage of enhanced wireless coverage with the nationwide availability of a femtocell solution. The femtocell is the newest component in Sprint’s suite of industry-leading wholesale solutions, which features wholesale wireline, wireless voice and data, machine-to-machine and VoIP solutions. The availability of the femtocell further supports Sprint’s strategy to deliver converged solutions to the marketplace.
A femtocell functions like a mini cell tower. It provides improved wireless coverage up to 5,000 square feet by creating a CDMA network signal within the customer’s home or small office. The service ...
Posted on 16th June 2009
Under: Femtocells, Sprint |
Airvana, Inc., the company transforming the mobile experience, today announced results of performance tests of the company's HubBub(TM) CDMA femtocell that demonstrated dramatic improvements for indoor 3G coverage and performance when compared with using the existing macro-cellular network alone. Based on the results of side-by-side testing, a typical HubBub user can expect to achieve broadband data rates throughout their house of approximately five times that of the existing wireless macro network. From a theoretical EVDO peak data rate of 3.1Mbps, femtocell data rates also proved to be significantly more consistent than the macro rates, exceeding ...
Posted on 23rd March 2009
Under: CDMA, Femtocells |
The global recession is one of the factors that has put a brake on expected large-scale femtocell deployments by major mobile operators. However, according to a new study from ABI Research, the slowdown will only be temporary.
According to senior analyst Aditya Kaul, revised 2009 estimates project shipments at slightly less than a million. “Femtocell rollouts to date have been limited, controlled ones,” he says. “But ABI Research expects that 2010 will see shipments climbing well above a million units.”
Why the optimism amid so much gloom? “The signs are there that vendors are gearing up for a ...
Posted on 23rd March 2009
Under: ABI, Femtocells |
For more than a decade, the expansion of wireless and wired broadband connectivity has transformed how we work and live, fostered dramatic new business opportunity and driven economic growth. The demand for connectivity remains strong and AT&T* continues to invest billions in its wireless and wired broadband networks to expand this critical platform for growth.
AT&T plans to invest $17 billion to $18 billion in 2009, in line with its 2007 capital expenditures of $17.7 billion and expected to exceed the planned investment of any other U.S. telecom company.
Approximately two-thirds of AT&T's 2009 investment will extend and ...
Posted on 12th March 2009
Under: 3G, AT&T, Femtocells |
The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, has together with the GSMA, the global body for the mobile industry, created the FemtoZone at Mobile World Congress 2009 (16-19 February 2009). The FemtoZone will serve as a one-stop-shop for all visitors interested in learning about the latest developments in the femtocell industry as it undergoes a pivotal year for deployment.
The FemtoZone (Stand - 2.1B34) will feature a daily schedule of public presentations from operators and vendors on the major opportunities and challenges facing the femtocell market. This will include an ...
Posted on 24th January 2009
Under: Femtocells |
Speaking at Cisco Systems' Cisco C-Scape conference in San Francisco, Dick Lynch, executive vice president and CTO of Verizon Communications, told conference attendees, "We expect that LTE will actually be in service somewhere here in the U.S. probably this time next year.
Posted on 11th December 2008
Under: Cisco, Femtocells, Verizon, WiFi |
AT&T Inc., the country's largest wireless carrier, is testing a technology that can improve the signal available to cell phones in subscribers' homes, and plans to make it available in a trial market next year.
Posted on 10th December 2008
Under: AT&T, Femtocells |
picoChip announced today that the first public demonstration of its PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell software reference design in China marks its general availability in the market. At the same time picoChip revealed Digimoc, a leading Chinese solution provider of femtocells, as its first publicly disclosed TD-SCDMA customer. Digimoc is using picoChip's PC202 device and PHY software reference design in its femtocell product.picoChip’s PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell software reference design was developed in China at picoChip’s Beijing design center. TD-SCDMA is the third major 3G standard, and launched during the Olympics this summer. picoChip now powers all three ...
Posted on 18th October 2008
Under: 3G, China, Femtocells |
Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announced today that customers across the country will soon be able to get enhanced wireless coverage, plus the option of unlimited calling with an AIRAVE voice plan, in their homes or offices with the upcoming nationwide launch of the Sprint AIRAVE by Samsung. The AIRAVE, named one of the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year by PC World, is the first commercially available femtocell, a mini cell tower that works with any Sprint phone* and a broadband Internet connection to provide enhanced in-home wireless coverage. Customers purchasing the ...
Posted on 30th July 2008
Under: Femtocells, Samsung, Sprint |
Airvana, Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent today announced that the two companies will develop an integrated solution -- incorporating IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and CDMA/EV-DO femtocell technology -- to support more effective delivery of mobile voice and multimedia services inside homes and offices. This initiative will ensure that CDMA/EV-DO network operators are able to make use of femtocells to improve the in-building wireless experience for their subscribers, while ensuring that these new network elements work seamlessly with the broader mobile network.Femtocells are small -- about the size of a book -- cellular access points that ...
Posted on 28th July 2008
Under: Alcatel, Femtocells |
The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announces that its members have agreed to implement the Broadband Forum's TR-069 "CPE WAN Management Protocol", a worldwide standard for real-time management of customer premises equipment (CPE), as the basis for the management protocol for femtocells.Following its definition in 2004, approximately 30 million devices now use this standard, making it robust and well-proven, with full interoperability. Management and provisioning of very high volumes of femtocells has been a major concern for carriers; adopting TR-069 and being able to re-use all ...
Posted on 21st July 2008
Under: Femtocells |
picoChip today announced the availability of the industry's first LTE femtocell and picocell reference designs, the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB respectively. Both PC86xx family small-cell LTE reference designs build on picoChip's successes as the leader in femtocells. Both products can be combined with picoChip's HSPA products and run on the same common hardware platform as the company's industry-standard WiMAX reference designs.picoChip is the only company shipping femtocell silicon, with customers that include Ubiquisys, ipAccess and a number of Tier One OEMs. This, combined with the company's extensive knowledge ...
Posted on 22nd May 2008
Under: Femtocells, Wimax |
3G network sharing is set to sweep through developed markets, and will have profound implications for mobile operators, vendors and regulators, according to a new report, 3G Infrastructure Sharing: the future for mobile networks, published by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media."Despite a number of announcements made around the time of 3G licence awards, the mobile industry was not ready to adopt extensive network sharing," said Dr Alastair Brydon, co-author of the report.
"Early interest in infrastructure sharing evaporated, and mobile operators chose to build and operate their own dedicated 3G networks. However, network ...
Posted on 28th February 2008
Under: 3G, Femtocells |
NEC Corporation today announced that NEC Europe, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is working with mobile operator Telefonica O2 Europe to deliver the UK's first live femtocell trial.O2 has begun an initial period of live testing in February. If successful, the trial will be rolled out in greater numbers across the UK in the summer, with the view to a commercial launch by early 2009. NEC is providing O2 with its Femtocell Solution, which includes 3G Femtocell Access Point for direct subscriber use, Femtocell Gateway and Access Point Management and Provisioning System.
The demand ...
Posted on 11th February 2008
Under: 3G, ABI, Femtocells, NEC |
picoChip today announced that it is collaborating with mimoOn to deliver the industry's first complete LTE (Long Term Evolution) basestation reference design. The new PC86xx family of LTE reference designs cover the full range of eNode Bs from femtocells to multi-sector macrocells and is supported on the same common hardware platforms as picoChip's WiMAX products. The system and its MIMO capabilities will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, 11-14 February on the picoChip stand 1D56.LTE is the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) 4G architecture and has ...
Posted on 5th February 2008
Under: Femtocells, Umts, Wimax |
