Orascom group, headquarted in Egypt, operates a number of mobile networks mainly in the North African, Southern European and Western Asian regions.
In September 2007, ip.access announced a frame agreement to supply 2G and 3G femtocells to the group.
The press release stated that 2G femtocells would focus on enterprise customers, whilst 3G would be targetted for domestic use.
A significant number of users continue to report poor mobile coverage in their homes. There will always be areas which are uneconomic for mobile operator to reach. They range from rural areas
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The term Enterprise addresses any non-residential in-building including hotels, convention centres, transport hubs, offices, hospitals and retail outlets. It's not just intended for businesses to
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Urban small cells (sometimes also named metrocells) are compact and discrete mobile phone basestations, unobstrusively located in urban areas. They can be mounted on lampposts, positioned on the
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A rural small cell is a low power mobile phone base station designed to bring mobile phone service to small pockets of population in remote rural areas. These could be hamlets, small villages or
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