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Femtocell Model Shifting? AT&T is Giving Them Away
7/12/10 at 10:14 AM by Bernie Arnason
Femtocells, the in-home mini wireless tower that promises better in-home coverage for wireless calls, are still relatively young in the technology adoption lifecycle. Most everyday customers are unfamiliar with the technology.
The business model is young and unproven as well. The model has its critics. Some question whether ...
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Femtocells Make it to Rural Markets Through Mosaic
6/22/10 at 11:05 AM by Bernie Arnason
Femtocell activity is picking up of late. AT&T is actively rolling out its AT&T 3G microcell product. Not to be outdone, Wisconsin based Mosaic Telecom will soon join them. ...
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WiMAX Femtocells Under Development
6/17/10 at 8:19 AM by Bernie Arnason
The femtocell movement has seen its share of fits and starts. That’s not stopping the WiMAX Forum and the Femto Forum from publishing a new standard for WiMAX femtocells.
“Standards are central to the success of new mobile technologies so this represents a major milestone ...
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AT&T Announces 3G Microcell Launch, Nationwide Femtocell Service
3/24/10 at 3:02 PM by Bernie Arnason
AT&T is pulling the trigger on a nationwide femtocell product called the AT&T 3G Microcell. The AT&T femtocell service allows its wireless customers to route their wireless voice and 3G data connections via their home broadband service, thus relieving AT&T’s ...
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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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