Small cells in the office: a great reason to churn

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Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin

Most businesses have more than one mobile service provider. In fact, Yankee Group found that large businesses have, on average, 1.9 mobile providers (one in five have three service providers), and small businesses have 1.5 mobile providers. Why? It is probably because companies are selecting providers based on the network availability at their office locations. Seems to make practical sense, …

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Could Apple deliver vital boost for femtocell adoption?

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Posted on January 3, 2012 by admin

By Aditya Kaul This year, the residential femtocell market has not seen the big launches it saw in the last few years from Vodafone, AT&T, or Sprint. Volumes will be well short of earlier expectations, probably by as much as 1 million-plus units. Vendors blame operators for not being active enough and operators blame vendors for not providing the right …

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Second UK femtocell service on its way?

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Posted on December 12, 2011 by admin

There has been a lot of chatter on the web that there may soon be a choice of femtocell service in the UK with O2 trialling femtocell services for both residential and business markets.  Customer forums such as this one and this one offer a glimpse into how much anticipation there is among some users that their mobile coverage challenges …

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Small cells: now on Wikipedia

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Posted on December 4, 2011 by admin

The discussion has been going on for a while – what is a femtocell, what is a metrocell, are metrocells the same as metro femtocells, how similar are femtocells to picocells. We believe that they are all small cells (as is beam forming). There is now a Wikipedia page dedicated to small cells…please do have a read. Remember that Wikipedia …

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Femtocells, not something to be embarrassed about

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Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

While many operators that offer femtocells seem to think that imperfect network coverage is something to be embarrassed about and so keep femtocells hidden from full view, Vodafone is trumpeting its Sure Signal service and moving it centre stage. As part of a new UK marketing campaign http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/sectors/telecoms-and-it/vodafone-launches-campaign-in-bid-to-increase-mobile-internet-use/3031468.articleVodafone recently announced that it will be encouraging its customers to use the …

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Can hetnets and self-organisation lead operators to the promised land?

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Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

By Paul Golden. With the number of mobile devices, and the amount of data they consume, growing at an exponential rate, operators are increasingly looking to self-optimisation and heterogeneous networks combine to maximise the efficiency of their network infrastructure. The point at which mobile operators begin to run out of capacity is no longer a theoretical debate. Wireless networks in …

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