Femtocell
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Sure the MagicJack Femtocell is Legal …
1/27/10 at 3:16 PM by Bernie Arnason
There's been a lot of chatter surrounding the forthcoming magicJack femtocell. YMAX, magicJack's parent announced during CES that their version of a femtocell is on the way. The magicJack femtocell will apparently operate with GSM wireless phones, and route those wireless calls over the Internet, in ...
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MagicJack Femtocell Confirmed
1/7/10 at 1:00 PM by Bernie Arnason
YMAX Corp., the parent company of magicJack, officially announced they will soon launch a wireless carrier agnostic femtocell product. MagicJack is a VoIP bypass service which uses a USB dongle connected to a computer and a regular phone, allowing consumers to buy ...
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Are Femtocells Dead on Arrival?
11/16/09 at 9:53 AM by Bernie Arnason
Femtocells are one of those products that, at least conceptually, look to have disruptive traits. The idea of putting a mini ‘cell tower’ in individual homes and businesses, greatly boosting indoor wireless coverage, certainly could be seen as accelerating ‘cord cutting’ behavior - perhaps in ...
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AT&T Joins Femtocell Party: How Long Before it’s Last Call?
9/22/09 at 12:01 AM by Bernie Arnason
AT&T is soft launching their version of the femtocell, called a microcell. The new device routes wireless traffic inside a home or business over a broadband connection, rather than through AT&T's wireless towers. Conceivably, femtocells provide better indoor coverage for wireless devices. ...
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Sprint to be First With 3G Femtocell?
7/1/09 at 8:34 AM by Telecompetitor
Sprint is looking to follow their own lead with femtocell technology by being the first U.S. carrier to offer a true 3G femtocell later this year. Sprint was the first carrier to offer a 2G femtocell, the Samsung Airave. Light Reading’s Unstrung ...
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Sprint Extends Femtocell Capabilities to Cable Partners
6/10/09 at 10:11 PM by Telecompetitor  Sprint announced the wholesale availability of its femtocell solution to its partners, including cable companies. The arrangement will allow Sprint partners to offer branded CDMA based femtocell service to subscribers. Sprint has been offering the Samsung Airave femtocell to its retail customers for nearly a year.
A Sprint CDMA femtocell creates an ‘indoor cell tower’ that uses a customer’s broadband ...
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Magic Jack Femtocell Coming?
4/22/09 at 10:46 PM by Telecompetitor  Magic Jack, the little USB VoIP engine that could, has some interesting improvements on the way. Magic Jack is a USB device that provides VoIP service by connecting a traditional phone to a broadband connected computer. The device sells for $39.95 and offers a year of unlimited local and long distance calling through the device. Additional years are $19.95 per. Magic Jack claims three million units sold.
According to Laptop ...
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Embarq Files Femtocell Patent
3/8/09 at 8:54 PM by Telecompetitor  Embarq has filed a patent at the U.S Patent and Trademark Office for a universal femtocell that will work with any carrier. The patent application states, “… the universal femto cell are provided such that the femto cell is configurable according to the user's choice of wireless carriers.” Basically, femtocells create a ‘mini’ cell tower within a home/business, using the customer’s broadband connection ...
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Verizon Launching Femtocells This Month?
1/19/09 at 11:35 AM by Telecompetitor  Verizon is apparently accelerating their femtocell launch strategy. Engadget is reporting a January 25th launch for a Verizon ‘wireless network extender,’ which they report will retail for $250. The femtocell creates an in-home wireless gateway for mobile calling, covering approximately 5,000 square feet. The Verizon femtocell is built by Samsung and supports three simultaneous calls. Rather than the nearest cell tower, wireless traffic within a femtocell equipped home is ...
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Femtocells to Accelerate Wireline Substitution?
7/1/08 at 1:56 PM by Telecompetitor  Several blogs, including Boy Genius Report (BGR) and Engadget are reporting that Sprint intends to launch their version of femtocell service nationwide sometime this month. Sprint has been trialing femtocell technology in Denver and Indianapolis. Sprint’s femtocell product, Airave, sets up a mini cell tower in a subscriber’s home and utilizes the subscriber’s home broadband service ...
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