Your mobile sets a chain reaction in motion, every time you hit the call key. It involves thousands of circuits, miles of fibre optic cable, and a communications network that spans the globe.
Femtocell technology developers could gain great rewards from their efforts in small cells to bolster mobile data services, says Heavy Reading Components Insider
SFR has started offering its “SFR Femto” femtocell free of charge to all of its mobile customers who request it online.
A new FULL MVNO has launched in the Netherlands called Private Mobility which provides an FMC and private GSM roaming solution for voice, sms and data for the business market.
French triple-play operator and mobile licence holder Free will offer mobile customers free femtocells when it launches service in January 2012, company founder Xavier Niel told subscribers.
In an effort to meet rapidly growing capacity demands, mobile service providers (MSPs) are increasingly augmenting traditional macro expansion with network offloading solutions.
A broad set of other firms can lay claim to a position in the femtocell market either by producing femtocell access points (like the UK’s HSL or Australia’s Juni), testing femtocell solutions, providing additional components and/or network integration support
New research has found that the majority of traffic (63%) generated by Smartphones, Tablets and Feature Phones will transfer onto the fixed network via Wi-Fi and Femtocells by 2015.
Dutch MVNE Provider, Teleena has started to provide Private GSM Networks, or FMC. Teleena enables customers to use their mobile phone’s when there is a land line phone within reach. It is just…easier. Especially because your mobile phone has an address book that is up to date. And who knows phone numbers by heart these days?
Private GSM solutions, appeared after the deregulation of the DECT guardband in some countries, allow users and businesses to reduce their costs without impacting in their performance and offering a number of added value services. All of this thanks to the ability to create private mobile GSM networks, enabling mobile phone users to access the same services and features as users of a PBX extension.
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.