Green Bay, WI – August 2, 2013 – Cellcom has launched myHomeZone, the company’s first residential femtocell product. The myHomeZone is designed to enhance wireless coverage inside homes where location, geography or structure interfere with reception. “Terrain in Wisconsin and…
Global sales of 2G and 3G femtocells rose 12% quarter-to-quarter in 2Q, surging 43% higher year-over-year, according to Infonetic Research’s latest femtocell market report. Double-digit gains were seen across all market segments—consumer, enterprise and public access, with consumer femtocells accounting…
Despite great promise, femtocells have yet to be widely adopted in the overall marketplace. But a new partnership between regional wireless carrier Cellcom, Airvana, and Taqua hope to change that, at least among smaller regional wireless carriers. The three announced…
February 17, 2012 — SWINDON, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mosaic Telecom, the regional US operator serving rural Wisconsin, is now providing its customers with femtocells based on the 3GPP Release 9 open standard. The Mosaic Home Cell is provided by Ubiquisys, the developer…
Femtocell market growth is set to surge in 2012, as the market matures and reorganizes into better defined segments around consumer, enterprise, rural and metro public space applications. Overall, the femtocell market will double in size this year, according to…
Wireless operators’ “3G small cell deployments are achieving volume and extending into new markets beyond the home,” according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s latest femtocell market status report , which was produced for the Femto Forum website. An increasing number…
Cellcom, a mobile operator serving rural areas of Wisconsin and Michigan, announced this week that it plans to use a switching platform from Taqua to support a femtocell deployment. The move will enable the carrier to improve capacity and coverage…
Verizon is quietly launching a new version of their femtocell solution, a product they call the Verizon Wireless 3G Network Extender. The $250 femtocell now allows voice and data offload, utilizing a subscriber’s broadband network for network access, rather than…
Fifty-six percent of U.S. cell phone subscribers that have broadband connections at home found the idea of femtocells “appealing,” far outweighing the 21% who were “neutral” to “negative,” according to femtocell market research conducted by Parks Associates for the U.K.-based…
YMax, the parent company of magicJack has been a little busy in 2010. They started the year off at the Consumer Electronics Show touting a forthcoming magicJack femtocell, to much fanfare. Then legality questions began to surface about the magicJack…
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….
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