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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 17:07 |
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The holiday season (in the Northern Hemisphere) will have seen many head for the sunshine and/or beaches. Many look to escape from work and domestic pressures, having little or no communication other than sending a postcard. A growing number however do want to keep in touch, whether to keep an eye on business activities or to share their experience with friends and family. More often these days, people prefer to do this via email rather than voice call because it allows more control of the duration and response time for each message.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 September 2010 17:09 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:10 |
Manish Singh, VP Product Line Management at Continuous Computing explains what they've been doing on 4G LTE femtocells, proposes a two layer solution with LTE TDD mode femtocells and tells us of the different LTE femtocell system architecture choices still open.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:58 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 18:14 |
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Much of the initial market hype for femtocells has been for the residential market. Since then femtocell designs have grown in capacity to fit the enterprise market needs, and are also suitable for Metro-Femto deployment. Are residential femtocells still the best initial route for new network operators to take? We describe three alternative types of femtocell rollout and discuss which is the best initial path.
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:03 |
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The recent rumour that BT, a fixed network operator in the UK and also an MVNO, is to offer femtocells may or may not prove correct. While we don’t tend to work on rumours alone, it does open up a potential new business model that is worth exploring. Here are a few thoughts on the topic.
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 09:42 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 00:00 |
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With the recent flurry of activity in Japan which now has all three major networks offering femtocells commercially, I thought it might be time to checkup on China and see what’s been happening there. There's also an upcoming femtocell conference in Beijing next month which makes this even more topical.
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Last Updated on Monday, 02 August 2010 09:37 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:29 |
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Amazon has stirred up the eBook reader world by reducing the price of a Kindle to as low as $139, the second price drop in a few months. The international version (which uses 3G GSM) has also been revamped and discounted. The Wall Street Journal estimates that sales have reached around 3.5 to 4 million units to date, comparable to Apple’s iPad 3.3 million units by the end of June. The eBook platform war is livening up!
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Written by David Chambers
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:11 |
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Is the industry making much progress about enabling femtocell applications? There's been a lot of focus on the so-called greater femtocell - expanding the vision from residential to enterprise, rural and metro environments. But is that at the expense of femtocell applications?
I asked Dr. Mustafa Ergen, Director of Research and Technology at Argela, about their market positioning, which centres on open standards both for the Iu-h interface and for femtocell applications.
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Written by David Chambers
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:36 |
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When mobile operators wanted to encourage their customers to use their mobile phones instead of their fixed landline phones, some introduced special pricing plans that offered discounted calls when at home or nearby. Sometimes called Fixed Mobile Substitution (FMS), these low calling rates encouraged users to make the switch. I believe this approach makes no sense for operators who offer mobile broadband data at home - unless they do so using femtocells.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:54 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:11 |
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With the rapid takeup of smartphone applications and cloud computing, you’d think there wasn’t a place left for femtocells to differentiate. Here we look at the different places where the intelligence for femtocell applications can reside, and trade-off the benefits and disadvantages.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:21 |
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:21 |
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We caught up with Nigel Toon, CEO of picoChip at the revent Femtocell World Summit. In this interview, Nigel explains what he plans to do with picoChip’s recently raised $20 million investment funding, shares his views on the state of the femtocell marketplace and how picoChip plans to address it. We've also recorded a 5 minute video interview with Nigel taken at last month's Femtocell World Summit.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:45 |
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