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The ABCs of Capacity: Add Sectors, Boost Backhaul and Condense Cells

Mar 7 | Articles

Mobile device manufacturers are churning out products that can squeeze more and more bits per hertz from the spectrum, and consumers are buying them by the millions, often resulting in overloaded networks and sluggish or interrupted service.

Femto Forum Broadens Focus, Changes Name

Feb 15 | News

The Femto Forum today announced it will no longer answer to that name but rather to the Small Cell Forum.

Small Cells, Big Coverage: Why DAS Will Win

Nov 8 2011 | Articles

The explosion in wireless data services has been well documented in the last year. Several operators have been lambasted publicly because popular smartphones and data-intensive applications are exposing capacity bottlenecks in large metropolitan markets.

Femto Forum: Femtocells Holding Their Own

Nov 2 2011 | Articles

Is the femtocell market is in an outright slump or just going through a more realistic path to adoption?

Small Cell Provider Seeing Bigger Returns

Aug 16 2011 | News

From ip.access' perspective, the small cell market is accelerating, driven by enterprise, retail, public hot spots, metro zones and more.

Temperature's Rising: Femtocells Come In From the Cold

Oct 4 2010 | Articles

ABI Research and Dell'Oro both recently released reports predicting that the femtocell market will pass 1 million shipments in 2010, and both houses say the market will exceed 60 million deployments by 2014. —So what's triggered the turn around?

Survey: Femtocell Awareness Low

Jun 22 2010 | News

Less than 10 percent of U.S. consumers are familiar with femtocells, according to a survey conducted on behalf of The Femto Forum...

Femtocells – The Future of Wireless

May 11 2010 | Articles

Since its early deployment, the focus of cellular has been on outdoor coverage, which makes sense when you consider that cellular began as car mounted devices for those few who could afford them. We are now in a world where the vast majority of cellular devices are handheld, they are "smart," and mobile Internet is all the rage.

Femtocell vs. Wi-Fi for Data Offloading & Indoor Coverage

Feb 24 2010 | Articles

As mobile data services and applications continue to increase and mobile Internet use grows with the rise in smartphone sales, operators are struggling to provide enough bandwidth to meet the demand for both voice and data services.

ABI Drastically Lowers Femto Estimates

Nov 12 2009 | News

ABI Research has slashed its previous estimates on femtocell shipments after sales came in much lower than expected.