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Old 22-07-2008, 12:45
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I was just watching a video on Sky News about Femtocells extending 3G coverage in doors...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/vid...ky-news-video#

^^ not sure if that link will work.

I wonder how long it will take operators to start providing this technology to customers?

It looks *very* useful and marketable!!
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Old 22-07-2008, 12:54
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I didn't see anything about femtocells there but i did catch up with what Gerry & Kate McCann are doing.
There's been talk of these femtocells or "mini cell sites" in houses for a while. They already use them in the likes of shopping centres and tunnels. If there's no 3G coverage in an area, it can't simply re-broadcast it so presumably it would use some of your broadband connection to communicate with the mother network?
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Old 22-07-2008, 12:57
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I cant provide a direct link unfortunetly.. its under "Technology" on the second page.

Heres a link to the actual device:

http://www.ipaccess.com/femtocells/oyster3G.php

Yes, it seems to use your home broadband connection to communicate with the operator.

I hope UK operators start looking into it soon as it could be very very useful!

Edit:

Looks like T-mobile is on the case: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communicatio...9292235,00.htm

A good article and it explains how it works. Hopefully by the end of the year there will be some big news about it
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Old 22-07-2008, 17:59
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You can already buy a "booster" which is professionally fitted to your house. There is an aerial outside and a unit mounted inside. Cost is £499+installation+VAT.
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Old 22-07-2008, 18:27
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You can already buy a "booster" which is professionally fitted to your house. There is an aerial outside and a unit mounted inside. Cost is £499+installation+VAT.
Blimey...

3G over IP defo sounds like a much better option.
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Old 22-07-2008, 22:45
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Hi,

Um, that company's been developing their stuff since the 90's, I'm not sure if it was taken over as part of Motorola's bargain acquisition of TTP communications.

There's also a missed-market/better alternatives in things like the BT Home-Hub, and this: http://abigidea.blogspot.com/2008/05...e-station.html .

There's also, what I predict, on a network-level (masts) and device level (handsets/devices) allowing P2P networking where rather than each device needing to tether directly to a network, they'll pass their data/content/radio-connection in the same way voip works - It's finally becomming possible for mobile's themslves to be used as local wi-fi hot-spots connecting to the mast network, the future will allow even more redundancy/signal-spread.


If you want some visions of the future, look up a company called Vanu - I wish flarion hadn't been sold to qualcomm!


Yours kindly,



MN
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