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Femtocells, mobile network base stations for residential or small business
environments, pose a technology conundrum for the telecommunications
industry. Optimistically, hundreds of thousands or millions of the devices
could be built and installed in consumer residences and small businesses
within the next several years, fueling the widespread adoption of 3G
broadband over mobile devices. On the other hand, femtos could end up being
simply niche home antennas that boost in-building mobile signals ad offload
backhaul traffic onto the incumbent broadband network. In this report, we
outline the market opportunities and technical hurdles involved in femtocell
deployments, detail the femto plans among the nation’s top mobile and
wireline carriers, and explore the role that femtos will play in 4G network
deployments.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- What are femtocells?
- The price must be right
- No subsidies
- How Do Femtocells Work?
- Network discrimination
- Interoperability road map
- Who wants femtocells?
- The retail model
- The evolving market
- The U.S. Versus the World
- It’s not about data
- The Competition
- The Mobile Carriers
- The Wireline Carriers
- Cable Operators
- Today’s Market
- Femtocells: The Future
- Summary: Hundreds, Thousands or Millions?
- About Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services
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Jim Barthold
Jim Barthold is a freelance writer with over 30 years of communications experience specializing in the broadband telecommunications space including cable, fixed broadband wireless and telephony applications. Most recently he is working as editor of FierceCable.
Barthold’s freelance work has appeared in such diverse publications as Communications Technology, Fat Pipe Magazine, VON Magazine, Telecommunications Magazine, Broadband Wireless Business Magazine, and Urgent Magazine, along with TV NewsCheck, a broadcast TV newsletter.
Prior to becoming a freelance writer, Barthold was employed as Technology Editor of Cable World Magazine and as a Senior Editor covering the broadband communications space -- including cable television -- with Telephony Magazine. Before becoming a trade journalist, he spent more than a decade as the public relations manager for General Instrument Corporation, a leading manufacturer of cable television equipment that was later purchased by Motorola.
He resides and works in Millville, N.J., a Southern New Jersey community famed for its glass industry history.
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