Broadband wireless technologies evolved during the last decades to a point where mature solutions exist for many different network configurations – fixed point to point, fixed point to multipoint, mobile. These solutions are used today for practically all types of broadband applications – cellular networks for mobile broadband; WiMAX for fixed, and lately also mobile, […]
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In a recent article in Fierce Wireless Peter Jarich of Current Analysis explains why he still does not have a femtocell. Going through the different arguments, I am even more convinced that femtocells have a bright future. Here is a short summary of the contrarian arguments. Femtocell offers are not mature, they are limited to […] In the previous post I explain in short what Fixed-Mobile Substitution (FMS) and Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) are. FMC has been around for more than 5 years, but has never achieved wide enterprise adoption. In a recent article in RCRWireless Josh Holbrook of the Yankee Group claims that FMC has proved to be a failure in […] Fixed-Mobile Substitution (FMS) – the use of a mobile phone instead of a fixed, wired telephone – has long been a desire of mobile operators, a way to increase addressable market and revenue. One mechanism to facilitate FMS is Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) – the use of dual-mode handsets with both cellular and WiFi connectivity, and […] According to a recent press release by ABI research, about 350,000 femtocells will have been shipped during 2009. This number is bound to be quite reliable, as it is published in November. It is a 55% reduction of the forecast of 790,000 published just 6 months ago. As admitted by ABI research, carriers refused to […] |
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