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Telecommunications 3G base stations: now available for your home
Telecommunications 3G base stations: now available for your home | 3G base stations: now available for your home |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 11 February 2007 | |
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Ulf Ewaldsson, vice president and head of product area radio at Ericsson, claimed the development as "a major technological breakthrough...Ericsson's femto cell solution enables mobile operators to compete on the fixed access market, offering price-competitive, innovative and secure services to their customers." Ericsson claims tha its femto cell allows the mobile operator to strengthen its relationship with subscribers and provides an incentive for all users in that household to have the same mobile operator, in order to get the home-area tariff and dedicated services. The femto cell home access point is connected (plug-and-play, Ericsson claims) to any existing IP backhaul network, such as an ADSL service, and the end user's mobile phone will switch to the indoor radio base station automatically as he or she walks through the door. Ericsson says its will be available through selected operators, starting in mid-2007. It is the first of what are likely to be many such products in what analysts seem to be almost universally predicting will be a huge market. Ovum is forecasting 17 million residential femto cells in Western Europe by 2011. "The main driver will be mobile operators developing business models that combine a reduction in infrastructure costs with new revenues from homezone offerings," Ovum says. |
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