As referenced yesterday, I sat down with a Motorola exec recently to get an update on the femtocell market. One of my big takeaways from the conversation was that the market varies widely from region to region. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the landscape of the mobile industry, but still the differences were far [...]
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Remember when I said we were about to hear a lot more about femtocells? Well In-Stat predicts there will be 101.5 million end-users worldwide within five years. You know once the analyst firms start putting out statistics that it’s just the start of the hype cycle.
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The first time I heard the word femtocell all I could think of were the diagrams of human cells and cellular walls we studied in my eighth grade science class. Actually, femtocells have nothing to do with biology at all. They’re used to amplify cell phone signals and are scaled for home and [...]
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There is a beautiful tech utopia where all the devices are compatible, all the networks are interoperable and the quality of service is always above average. It may not be quite what Garrison Keillor envisioned, but it’s been the grand pipe dream of techies for more than a decade. Of course, silly [...]
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After writing about Motorola’s work with Danish telco TeliaSonera, I decided I needed to do a little more research on how operators are delivering fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). For years I’ve heard people talk about IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as the basis for FMC services. Since IP voice is just made up of packets [...]
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Where other reports have shown little interest in dual-mode phones, a recent study by ABI finds that nearly a third of subscribers would adopt dual-mode phones with fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services. Why?
Better in-home signal coverage
Cheaper calls via a Wi-Fi network at home versus a celluar network
Identity convergence [...]
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More Motorola news today, of the good kind. With Danish telco TeliaSonera, Motorola is deploying a voice gateway for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services. In plain-speak, here’s what the gateway does: If you’re on a dual-mode phone (cellular and Wi-Fi) outside the home and you then walk into range of your home Wi-Fi connection, [...]
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