NEC of Japan are a very large multi-national business offering a wide range of electronic products and services. Founded in 1899 as the Nippon Electric Company, and renamed NEC Corporation in 1983, the company has a turnover of around USD $5 Billion and employs some 140,000 staff directly and through subsiduaries.

Their femtocell division is based in Pune, India and operates as an end-to-end system integrator, combining and pre-testing several vendor's products into a complete offering which they call the Home Gateway Solution. They primarily use Ubiquisys femtocell and Kineto Wireless controller. They have been involved in many lab and field trials, with several following through to commercial deployment.

They have also incorporated the Netgear home hub DVG834GH (which includes Ubiquisys 3G femtocell) into their portfolio. This provides ADSL2+ modem, WiFi, VoIP port and 3G femtocell in a single box.

NEC is partnering with Kineto Wireless and resells their UNC (UMA Network Controller).

NEC branded Ubiquisys space model femtocell

NEC have been running many operator trials and debugging a variety of technical issues. Their global head of femtocells, Anil Kohli, shared his experience in a ThinkFemtocell Interview during 2009 and again in February 2011

First commercial network launch using NEC eco-system was SFR France in December 2009. This used the Kineto Wireless Femtocell Gateway and Ubiquisys Zonegate femtocell.

Announced that the Airvana HubBub femtocell (UMTS version) was added to their ecosystem in February 2010. Integration was based on the 3GPP Iu-h standard. This was withdrawn after Airvana discontinued their UMTS product.

NEC also announced adoption of the Ubiquisys G3 femtocell (based on Percello PRC6500 chip), which they rebranded the FP810. This reduced size box (8 centimetres long) can handle 8 concurrent calls, HSPA data yet consumes less than 5W of power.

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