I visited India this week. What’s that got to do with femtocells, you may ask? The point is that the country which will shortly become No.2 by subscribers (ahead of US, behind China) is quite unsuitable for 3G femtocells both now and in the foreseeable future. This focuses the mind on some market segmentation for femtocells.
Femtozones are additional services enabled within the coverage footprint of a femtocells. For our purposes, we’ve excluded any changes or updates to other equipment in the home which involves a much more integrated/managed network solution. All that’s required for a femtozone is to install and connect a 2G or 3G femtocell at the user’s home or office and connect it to broadband. This means that any of the main femtocell system architectures can be used to provide femtozones.
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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