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.

Femtos May Fare Better in China, But Skeptics Remain

Nov 3 2009 | Articles

First, China got the iPhone, and then it got femtocells. So far, China's response to the iPhone has been tepid and it's not clear whether femtocells will fare any better.

AT&T Launches Femtocell Solution

Sep 21 2009 | News

AT&T quietly launched the A&T 3G MicroCell, the first femtocell from the carrier. The unit acts like a mini cellular tower in the home or small business, which allows for better indoor coverage.

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

Feb 24 2010

Small Cells, Big Coverage: Why DAS Will Win

Nov 8 2011

Small Cell Provider Seeing Bigger Returns

Aug 16 2011

RIM Co-CEO on Competition, Scale & the Future

Mar 29 2009

Temperature's Rising: Femtocells Come In From the Cold

Oct 4 2010

Ten-Yard Penalty, Failure to Engage Via Mobile

Feb 6

I was about as impressed with attempts to integrate mobile with this year's Super Bowl as I was with the Green Bay Packers’ effort during their NFC divisional playoff loss to the New York Giants.

LightSquared Deserves a Hearing

Feb 2

The government should figure out how the LightSquared saga came to be.

In Other News: Patents

Jan 13

The tech industry may have had its attention focused on gadgets this week due to the annual hullaballoo at the 2012 International CES show in Las Vegas, but at least a few people were thinking about the patented inventions that make those electronics work.

Super Bowl Spot: Samsung Note

Feb 8

Super Bowl Spot: Best Buy Mobile

Feb 8

Quick Look: Huawei Ascend

Jan 23