Thursday 8 December 2011

Deployment

According to bazaar Research close Informa and the Femto Forum,19 as of December 2010 18 operators accept launched bartering femtocell services, with a absolute of 30 committed to deployment.

At the end of 2011, femtocell shipments accept accomplished about 2 actor units deployed annually, and the bazaar is accepted to abound rapidly with audible segments for consumer, enterprise, and carrier-grade femtocell deployments.20 Femtocell shipments are estimated to accept accomplished about 2 actor at the end of 2010.21 Research close Berg Insight estimates that the shipments will abound to 12 actor units common in 2014.22

Within the United States, the best cogent deployments up to December 2010 are by Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless. Sprint started in the third division of 2007 as a bound rollout (Denver and Indianapolis) of a home-based femtocell congenital by Samsung Electronics alleged the Sprint Airave that works with any Sprint handset.23 From 17 August 2008, the Airave was formed out on a civic basis. Other operators in the United States accept followed suit. In January 2009 Verizon formed out its Wireless Arrangement Extender, based on the aforementioned architecture as the Sprint/Samsung system.24 In backward March 2010, AT&T appear civic roll-out of its 3G MicroCell, which commenced in April. The accessories is fabricated by Cisco Systems and ip.access, and was the aboriginal 3G femtocell in US, acknowledging both articulation and abstracts HSPA.25 Both Sprint26 and Verizon27 upgraded to 3G CDMA femtocells during 2010, with accommodation for added circumstantial calls and abundant college abstracts rates.

In Asia, several account providers accept formed out Femtocell networks. In Japan, SoftBank Mobile launched its residential 3G femtocell account in January 200928 with accessories provided by Ubiquisys. In the aforementioned year the abettor launched a activity to arrange femtocells to bear alfresco casework in rural environments area absolute advantage is limited.29 In May 2010, SoftBank Mobile launched the aboriginal chargeless femtocell offer,30 accouterment accessible admission femtocells chargeless of allegation to its residential and business customers. In Singapore, Starhub formed out its aboriginal nation-wide bartering 3G Femtocell casework with accessories provided by Huawei Technologies, admitting the uptake is low, while Singtel's alms is targeted at baby average enterprises. In 2009, China Unicom appear its own Femtocell network.31 NTT DoCoMo in Japan launched their own Femtocell account on the 10th November 2009.32

In July 2009 Vodafone appear the aboriginal Femtocell arrangement in Europe,33 the Vodafone Admission Gateway provided by Alcatel-Lucent.34 This was rebranded as SureSignal in January 2010,35 afterwards which Vodafone additionally launched account in Spain, Greece, New Zealand,36 Italy and Ireland.37 Other operators in Europe accept followed back then, with SFR in France 38 with femtocells provided by Ubiquisys and Optimus Telecomunicações, S.A. in Portugal.39

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