Professional services can be bought in by equipment vendors and network operators to help will all stages of the femtocell solution design, testing, deployment and evaluation. Several companies, both large and small, offer staff with prior experience and knowledge of the best way to approach specific tasks.

The use of external consultants and professional staff allows vendors to accelerate or scale up their development and deployment programs, allows network operators to run trials and evaluate the real-world performance of competing suppliers, and determine how best to go to market.

Typically areas of professional services including  technical design, project management, testing, training and commercial business modelling.