I saw this excellent summary data of the US cellular industry published by CTIA (Cellular Telecommuncations Industry Association). Wireless revenues have grown from $100Bn to $150Bn since 2005, around 15% of the global figure. There are some interesting deductions to be made from it.

As Senior Product Marketing Manager, Lee has been responsible for the Vodafone UK femtocell (now renamed Sure Signal) since before its commercial launch. Here, he shares his experience of the Sure Signal femtocell, explains the reasons behind their customer proposition and promises market promotion activity that nobody will miss.

At current rates, all US landlines will have been disconnected by 2025. Around 25% of homes have cut the cord already, and around 10% are cancelling the service annually - some 700,000 disconnections a month. Despite poor coverage in many areas, there is growing confidence in the availability and reliability of the cellphone service.

GENBAND reckon they are involved in over 2/3^rd of all field trials of femtocells and can publicly claim they involved in two of today’s commercial femtocell services. Who are they and what do they provide? We spoke with their product team to establish where GENBAND fit into the femtocell market and capture their views on this evolving technology.

Mike Cronin, CEO of Node-H, provides his insight into the state of the femtocell market. His company offers a turnkey femtocell protocol stack especially suitable for new entrants. We ask if there aren’t too many femtocell vendors already, and how the forthcoming interoperability testing program could affect the industry eco-systems.

A secret government agency with a project codenamed “InterfereX” does sound a bit like something from “Men in Black”. Fortunately, we’ve avoided the memory wiping beams to report on this unusual research which may be incorporated into femtocells at some time in the future. We spoke to Dr. Mark Reed from NICTA, an Australian research agency, very early one morning.

I thought a quick reminder of who has launched commercial service, and which vendors they are using might be in order. These all relate to domestic commercial services, available to customers to buy in shops and/or online today.