Monthly Archives: June 2009

Femtocell Industry Awards 2009: NEC and SoftBank recognised, Ubiquisys the Common Factor

Jun 26 2009
Posted by Will Franks

My warmest congratulations at the Femtocell Industry Awards last week went out to NEC and SoftBank, mainly because both are part of an ecosystem that relies on Ubiquisys femtocells. NEC won the award for Progress in Commercial Deployments. This recognised Continue reading »

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Enterprise Femtocells: Easy to Underestimate

Jun 17 2009
Posted by Will Franks

Enterprise femtocells, forming a grid of self-organising coverage, are genuinely new. So it’s not surprising that they are often misunderstood. On one hand they offer the low cost and self-install simplicity of enterprise WiFi. Yet they also offer all the Continue reading »

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New Femtocell Reference Book

Jun 05 2009
Posted by Will Franks

Femtocells are not just a new type of device, they change traditional technical boundaries and they open new commercial models for mobile. There have been some good introductions to femtocells, such as David Chambers’ Femtocell Primer, but what has been Continue reading »

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Femtocells – a network planning and management nightmare?

Jun 04 2009
Posted by Will Franks

Kevin Fitchard asks some key questions about femtocells in his article in Telephony Online. He was commenting on how femtocells might be the answer to mobile networks reaching Shannon’s Limit of available capacity. Femtocells can easily provide the capacity relief, Continue reading »

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