Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
A report issued last month by Unstrung Insider, a paid research service of CMP Technology's Light Reading news service, concluded that "Ultra-low-cost home base stations that allow wireless users to communicate across any IP access network using a standard mobile handset will challenge WiFi VoIP for dominance in the consumer fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) market.
Unstrung that "Vendors say femto cells could sell for $US100 by the end of 2008," and it concluded that "The price is attainable, but the timeline is not: $US200 to $US300 is more realistic."
Very similar conclusions were reached in a report last August from ABI Research. It concluded that femtocells would be adopted by mobile operators with great enthusiasm. It forecast that, by 2011 there would be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points worldwide."
In other developments in the past few days:
- UK chip maker, picoChip announced what it claimed was the first HSUPA-femtocell reference design. "picoChip is the leader in femtocell technology," said Guillaume d'Eyssautier, president and CEO of picoChip. "No one else has shipped HSDPA femtocell base station technology, and we are now in pole position with our new HSUPA offering. We are pleased to be extending this lead and enabling our customers to do the same."
- NEC Corporation and femto cell developer Ubiquisys Ltd have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver femto cell solutions worldwide. NEC will offer the Ubiquisys ZoneGate femto cell as part of its 3G home gateway solutions portfolio.
According to Tadatoshi Fujiwara, general manager of mobile network solutions division, NEC, "The Ubiquisys femto cell access point cuts the cost of 3G deployment and call provision, and enables operators to offer aggressive, home-zone packages which drive fixed-mobile substitution and reduce churn, helping to lock-in users and even entire families."
According to Chris Gilbert, CEO of Ubiquisys, "The adoption of mass-market femto cell technology by an established and leading 3G infrastructure vendor such as NEC reflects the growing significance of a reliable 3G home coverage to mobile operators. NEC has selected our standards-based solution because it recognises the reliability, flexibility and scale economies implied by such an approach."
David Bass
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