I came across another new acronym last week (mobile telecoms is full of them of course), where LTE standards have “borrowed” a term from the computing industry. Self-CHOP isn’t a new karate move or a new type of TV dinner, but relates to the significantly complex automatic management of LTE cellsites. I’d argue that many of these features are already available in commercial 3G femtocells, so their macrocell cousins will be playing catchup for LTE (the next generation 4G mobile phone standard).

picoChip’s recent press release about smart signaling for femtocells is worthy of a bit more analysis than I’ve seen elsewhere. Here’s a slightly more indepth discussion of what’s new, different and how quickly it might make an impact. Not only does it relieve congestion, but it can speed up data access by over 60% for web browsing and similar smartphone applications.