The global recession is one of the factors that has put a brake on expected large-scale femtocell deployments by major mobile operators. However, according to a new study from ABI...
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has been awarded a femtocell bid from Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest telecommunications provider, to deploy Taiwan's first femtocell network,...
Much attention has been devoted to femtocells' potential to improve indoor cellular coverage. But an older technology, the picocell, has existed for about a decade. Picocells provide...
As with all technologies, some operators seek to optimize first-mover advantage and get to market early. Softbank now joins Sprint in this camp. However, in general operators would...
DesignArt Networks (DAN), a fabless semiconductor company, has unveiled its DAN2200 WiMAX femtocell SoC, which the company claims is the industry's only complete single-chip femtocell...
It is likely that femtocells and picocells will form an integrated part of the initial rollouts of LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks, say analysts at ABI Research.
Telecom operators around the globe have sped up the installation of femtocell networking equipment in order to expand their FMC (fixed mobile convergence) services – a move...
Although mobile operators are increasingly optimistic about femtocells, there are many doubts circulating around this new technology as it struggles to resolve key challenges such...
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to purchase a total of 3,000 femtocell base stations, which has attracted four international telecom vendors - Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent,...
The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, and the NGMN Alliance, the group focused on the evolution to the next generation...
Taiwan-based telecom equipment maker Tecom has been shipping its UMA (unlicensed mobile access) femtocell base stations to North America since the first quarter of this year, with...
