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Inside out – Vodafone UK’s approach to femto deployment

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Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

More from Femtocells World Summit…. Alan Law, new technologies manager at Vodafone UK discussed where next for femtocells usage in the Britain. Vodafone has been trialling public access femtos in a rural village to understand what power, IP transport and access point locations would be needed if it was to roll out commercial services. According to Law, femtocells are good for …

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A mixed up future for LTE

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Posted on April 20, 2011 by admin

The author of a research report on projected LTE infrastructure spending has stated that operators will need to evolve their networking architecture into a heterogeneous architecture involving a combination of macro cells, micro cells and small cells, co-existing with femtos and WLAN mesh networks. Jagdish Rebello, senior director and principal analyst for communications and consumer electronics at IHS describes these …

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Big prizes for small sizes – why femtocells are shrinking

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Posted on March 22, 2011 by admin

By Rupert Baines. Femtocells are getting smaller (and more powerful). At the recent Mobile World Congress, we saw a number of enterprise and metro femtocells that could support more users and over a greater distance. But we also saw how femtocell technology was being miniaturized. Recent advances in semiconductor processing, signal processing algorithms and systems integration combined with USB 3.0 …

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Where to deploy metro femtocells

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Posted on March 17, 2011 by admin

By Julia Mason This follows on from my previous post on metro femtocells…. The business case for using metro femtocells to support or infill the mobile network is well proven. But how do you know where you should deploy metro femtos? Firstly, look at your customer complaints. This will give you an idea of where the coverage problems are and at …

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