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By: Future Of Femtocells – Finding Room In Wi-Fi Era! « Telecomblogs

Future Of Femtocells – Finding Room In Wi-Fi Era! « Telecomblogs — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:56:48 +0000

[...] day while I was going through few posts related to Femtocells, I wondered is it really safe to completely disregard the future of femtocells as a whole? As said, femtocells might be facing stiff competition from Wi-Fi, but that [...]

By: Janey

Janey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Good! I'm looking forward to the AT&T Femtocell. I make a lot of calls from home but before 9pm. Another $19.99/mo for unlimited voice & data (via my own femtocell) might sound like a rip off but when you babble like my family does, it's a huge cost savings over the standard unlimited plans. And the added bonus of always having coverage. This is good because we've had problems with cell networks during severe storms but my FIOS has never gone out because the fiber is all underground and my ONT & router are on a UPS. I'd have cell coverage in my own home during severe weather. This is something else to consider. People are getting way too hung up on the "Waaah why don't they just fix the network?!" argument. A femtocell is an excellent solution for many customers.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:27 +0000

Just give me a good SIP application for my smartphone, and I'll send all my calls out through my wi-fi with the low cost VoIP provider of choice. The call quality will be better than if I were sitting right under my 3G provider's tower.

The only reason femtocell might work, is because many folks have no clue about alternatives. They only hope to get that crappy or non-existent signal at the house pumped up so they can use the device they were told would "work just fine" when they picked it up at the "_____" store. Now, if they were able to get rid of that $40/mth. landline by getting a femtocell, that might provide a little incentive too.

By: Rupert Rawnsley

Rupert Rawnsley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:09:09 +0000

On the issue of cell 'topography': Cellular technology and consumer demand has advanced so fast that cell planning tools and techniques are playing catch up. I have 10 years experience of cell plan optimization, and we typically see 30% improvements in throughput for the same infrastructure when applying cutting edge optimization technologies (such as automatic parameter planning). There is latent capacity in most networks that can be mined out with a modest investment in better tools and processes.

Disclosure: I run a company that makes cell planning software.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:03:36 +0000

Atleast a billion of those phones cost under $30. Indian villagers aren't buying $200 femtocell routers to hook up to their broadband.

By: Wi-Fi Mobile Phones As Percentage Of Total Mobile Handsets @ Tech Crunchies – Internet Statistics and Numbers

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:55:02 +0000

[...] But this is a gigantic leap from two years back when only 3.1% of the phones were Wi-Fi enabled. Here is how the numbers will stand to grow in the next few years (The information presented is as [...]

By: vijaygill

vijaygill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:40 +0000

one item that I really like is the UMA work that t-mobile has been doing – quite interesting from a setup perspective and it doesn’t cause 3g signal pollution (imagine I get a femto cell and put it in my living room – now my neighbor, if they are on the same network, is getting signal pollution (I am making the terms here as layman friendly as possible, but inter-cell interference would be closer to the mark) from my femto cell and it is making their network experience worse if they are on things like umts.

/vijay

By: anon

anon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:12:49 +0000

residential seems to be a tough nut for femto to crack. although that is where vendors want them to go..time will tell but wifi is pretty strong and getting in all sorts of things from gaming stations, to cameras and memory cards….