4G World: Verizon exploring small cells for adding future capacityConnectedPlanetEven if Verizon were to stumble onto a spectrum bonanza, the increasing pressure to address growing mobile data demands and to effectively offer cheap capacity would drive Verizon to implement small cell architectures in those new bands as well, ...and more »

4G World: IP.Access unifying femto, small cell gatewayConnectedPlanetTiller said that a converged management platform is key as femtocells evolve from private home and business coverage solutions to mobile offload points in congested networks. Operators that have deployed 2G femtocells will be able to migrate to 3G and ...

BelAir's latest small cell to integrate directly with the macro networkConnectedPlanetAt CTIA Wireless Enterprise & Applications it announced a stand-alone Metrocell, which combines its own specialty Wi-Fi access and mesh backhaul technology with any number of wide area network radios, creating a combination small cell, carrier data ...and more »

Mobile hot-buttons: Spectrum, small-cell networks and Wi-Fi offloadConnectedPlanetDuring a Connected Planet webcast Wednesday, Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard asked a panel of knowledgeable guests — Chris Kapuscinski, head of small cells/femtocells marketing at Alcatel-Lucent; Mike Wright, director of networks and access technologies ...

ConnectedPlanetIs it time for home and away pricing for telecom?ConnectedPlanetIn my home, everything should transmit over the same coax or fiber cable – my wireline voice, my wireline data, and as carriers get more sophisticated, even my wireless voice and data (through a local femtocell). I'd like this to be provided by my ...

Deal and technology focused on offloading signaling from both current generation and 4G wireless networks via IP and SIP. The goal: to help mobile operators maximize those networks while building a service bridge between the two worlds.

InterDigital, Picochip meld Wi-Fi with femtocells for mobile offloadConnectedPlanetA big debate is brewing in the wireless industry over whether femtocells or Wi-Fi will emerge as the key technology for relieving increasingly overtaxed mobile data networks. InterDigital and Picochip are proposing a compromise: use ...and more »

ConnectedPlanetBelAir stakes its claim in small cellsConnectedPlanetWireless vendors have spent the last few months furiously unveiling their small cell strategies, proclaiming a future network where a layer of tightly packed cells below the macro network feeds the growing hunger for mobile data ...

How to meet massive demand for mobile dataConnectedPlanet (blog)These measures include offloading traffic using femtocells, Wi-Fi or broadcast networks; making applications more network-friendly; prioritizing real-time ...

Mosaic Telecom plans femtocell deploymentConnectedPlanet (blog)Mosaic plans to subsidize part of the price of the femtocells, which will cost customers $49.95. There will also be a $9.95 monthly fee for femtocell ...and more »

TM Forum: Empirix tunes monitoring for mobile IP coreConnectedPlanet (blog)Another application will be to help monitor the quality of voice traffic as it gets handed off from a local femtocell to a broadband network. ...

Cellcom's Midwest femto app labConnectedPlanet (blog)Cellcom may be a small operator in the Midwest, but it has outsized plans for turning the femtocell from a mere indoor coverage solution ...

Getting serious about eliminating landlineConnectedPlanet (blog)It might be time for telcos to pledge to regulators that they will give away cell phones and perhaps even femtocells to some of these consumers, ...

ConnectedPlanet (blog)Femtocells + Plugfests = ???ConnectedPlanet (blog)Per the Forum, more than 20 companies showed up to run interoperability testing between femtocells, femtocell gateways and security gateways. ...

ConnectedPlanet (blog)Beware the femtocell con gameConnectedPlanet (blog)The problem is that the femtocells are still in the early stages of development. The Femto Forum just succeeded in getting femto interfaces standardized ...