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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:01 |
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 The growing takeup of LTE, the new 4G radio technology, brings a major opportunity for a range of small cells. Last year saw major releases from both software and hardware components vendors, but there still seem to be relatively few generally available products today – will this change soon after forthcoming announcements made at Mobile World Congress?
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 18:31 |
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 Qualcomm have published a research paper comparing LTE femtocells operating in close co-ordination with the macrocell network (a so-called HetNet or Heterogeneous Network) and secondly macrocells augmented by uncontrolled Wi-Fi. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the results favoured the operator controlled femtocell scenario. But for me the surprise was just how much more effective LTE was than Wi-Fi, showing a capacity gain of 920% from just 4 LTE femtocells. The question is - does this present the full picture?
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011 18:22 |
 Climate change is a major concern worldwide today. Perhaps surprisingly, an award winning research study determined that the adoption of femtocells and small cells could reduce energy consumption by up to 70% in urban areas. With mobile networks needing to deliver more and faster data, the energy efficiency of doing so using small cells makes a compelling case.
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:55 |
 Some pioneering work at Orange UK was presented by Adrian Pike from their radio planning department at the Avren basestation conference recently. They’ve been looking at how and where specific locations could be identified for small cells and femtocells, how accurately they need to be positioned and the contribution they would make to network capacity and performance.
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Written by David Chambers
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:46 |
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 The need to make more efficient use of our energy resources has changed the construction materials used to build our homes. These can drastically reduce the quality of indoor mobile phone signals. Does this make a stronger case for femtocells in the home and office?
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