| Get ready for another disruption |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Saturday, 30 September 2006 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Femtocells are very small, low cost, cellular base stations that could be installed in a customer's home, connected into the cellular network over the customer's broadband connection and used to offer that customer a preferential tariff when they call from home. They also improve in-building coverage and, by creating new small 'cells' increase the carrying capacity of the overall network. It's very early days still for femtocell technology but it is definitely one to watch. In a just published forecast on the dual-mode (cellular/voice over Wi-Fi handset market, ABI Research estimates sales worldwide will top 300 million units by 2011 but cautions that "the arrival of femtocell access points towards the end of the study's forecast period may prove disruptive for the market." That's one of the great things about this industry: there is always a new disruption just around the corner.{moscomment}
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