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• 10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

• How to improve the smartphone experience inside the enterprise

  By Andy Tiller, SVP of product management and marketing at ip.access | 09 June, 2011 06:45

  Every day in large and small offices across America, business workers ignore the PC or desk phone and grab their smartphones for convenient voice, email and Internet access. But delivering high quality cellular service inside office buildings is a challenge for wireless carriers, especially for high-speed data which requires a particularly strong signal.

• Ruckus: Market ripe for telcos to offload 3G network data with Wi-Fi

  By Spandas Lui | 01 April, 2011 16:56

  Wi-Fi technology will play a big part of telcos’ plans to alleviate 3G network congestions as data demands grow exponentially, according to Ruckus Wireless sales manager, Carl Jefferys.

• Femtocells may boost more than just cellular coverage: Study

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 18 January, 2011 07:32

  Femtocells will soon be able to improve home security, personal safety and help integrate smartphones with TVs, laptops and media players, in addition to improving cellular coverage in the home, ABI Research said on Monday.

• MagicJack femtocell misses planned launch date

  By Nancy Gohring | 23 July, 2010 05:07

  The magicJack femtocell, a product unveiled to much excitement earlier this year, has not launched as expected during the second quarter, although the company says it will still become available this year.

• Femtocell prices have dropped below $100, says vendor

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 31 March, 2010 07:21

  The wholesale cost of a femtocell has dropped below US$100 and that will help give the sector a boost, femtocell vendor Ubiquisys said on Tuesday.

• MagicJack harnesses femtocell for VoIP

  By Stephen Lawson | 08 January, 2010 15:08

  MagicJack is demonstrating a device near the International Consumer Electronics Show this week that it claims will let consumers make VoIP calls using any GSM phone.

• Networks have to get more dense, Qualcomm says

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 October, 2009 11:31

  The wireless industry has reached the limits of what it can do to use radio spectrum more efficiently and needs to move on to making networks more dense through tools such as femtocells, the cofounder and the current CEO of Qualcomm said Thursday.

• Ubiquisys adds speedier femtocell

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 June, 2009 04:16

  Ubiquisys said Monday that it is aiming for a fourth quarter release of consumer and business versions of its next-generation femtocell, the G3, designed to offer mobile broadband download speeds up to 21.6M bps (bits per second).

• Groups combine efforts to push WiMax femtocells

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 June, 2009 03:14

  The WiMax Forum has joined forces with the Femto Forum to speed up the development of femtocells for mobile WiMax networks, the organizations said on Wednesday.

• Femtocells key to speedy LTE services

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 May, 2009 04:55

  To get the most out of upcoming mobile broadband networks based on LTE (Long Term Evolution), the use of femtocells is a key ingredient, according to industry organization the Femto Forum.

• Android UI changes look with femtocell app

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 May, 2009 05:46

  A new application for phones based on the Android platform automatically adjusts the device's user interface when it's in range of a femtocell, a small base station that can improve wireless coverage and bandwidth.

• Sony, Toshiba, Qualcomm join the Femto Forum

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 April, 2009 05:17

  Consumer electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have joined the Femto Forum, an industry organization whose role is to push femtocells. Qualcomm has also been added to the membership roster, the Femto Forum announced on Wednesday.

• Mobile industry split over UMA versus femtocells

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 13 October, 2008 10:00

  As mobile data traffic continues to increase, with more generated by home users, operators are under pressure to adopt either UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or femtocells, both of which have a lot going for them, according to their respective proponents.