Tag Archives: femtozones

Competition is over the top

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Posted on August 23, 2011 by admin

By David Chambers. Following on from my blog yesterday looking at the levels of third-party application integration with femtocells, now I would like to discuss the impact of OTT players. One wonders whether iPhone or Android application developers, who have their own SDKs and route to market, will care to take advantage of this GSM OneAPI and its femtocell extensions. …

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The elevator pitch for femtocell applications

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Posted on August 22, 2011 by admin

By David Chambers. Femtocell applications may not have fired up everyone’ imagination, but the recent milestone of a standard API, published by the Femto Forum, combined with easy access to software development tools (SDK) promises to open this up to a wider range of 3rd party innovation. Building on an existing foundation The Femto Forum have usually taken the approach …

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Monetizing the five-bar lifestyle with femtocells

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Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

By Aditya Kaul Femtocells have been largely seen as a cost effective voice-based coverage solution that works out of the box, helping unfortunate mobile users that suffer with poor coverage in their homes and offices. However, the value proposition of femtocells goes beyond being just a coverage solution, or a ‘churn-reduction’ tool. The end-game for femtocells is about enabling a …

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