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We know where you live – the femto cell reveals all

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Posted on August 18, 2010 by admin

By David Swift Operators should stop looking to insert themselves in the value chain as developers of “killer applications” or trying to defend a walled garden of proprietary services. The emergence of the iPhone / App store ecosystem has demonstrated that multiple parties pooling their resources can grow a market more effectively than a single player. Rather than competing with …

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What’s in a name? Femtos come in all shapes and sizes

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Posted on July 8, 2010 by admin

By Simon Saunders There is often some confusion between the terms femtocell, picocell and microcell as if they are somehow in competition, and the market is becoming very fragmented. This is not the case. These days the “greater femto” is a continuum, with the same architecture being applicable to number of deployment scenarios. Picocells have indeed been around for some …

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Ecosystem challenges – why operators need help with the glue

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Posted on June 23, 2010 by admin

By Hervé Leboime Following on from my post yesterday about the new ecosystem challenges brought about by the emergence of small cells, I want to dig deeper into the role operators will play in future. Service providers are the vital glue in the new mobile ecosystem, connecting all of the stakeholders. But they might need a little extra help in …

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Why are mobile operators turning on to small cells?

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Posted on June 10, 2010 by admin

By David Swift Following on from my previous post about the definition of small cells, I’m going to address the issue of market drivers. The strongest impetus for adoption comes from operators, which are aiming to provide infill coverage for areas currently underserved by the macro network, and looking to offload traffic from the macro network to the small cell in …

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