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1. It does a lot of things much more efficiently, which otherwise would be done elsewhere.

   In Small Cells Gaining Intelligence for Mobile Performance, Features

2. What I think we'll see is large, preplanned manual cells, with huge numbers of intelligent cells of various sizes underneath.

   In Small cells are getting bigger

3. We have to work out the boundaries. Where do the cells fit in with the topology of a planned network? We don't know the answer to that, yet.

   In Small cells are getting bigger

4. The femtocell market has come of age... The industry is getting up to the 2 million per-year mark – next year we expect to be shipping millions on our own.

   In Move closer: mobile operators take the base station home

5. Once plugged into a computer, it uses a combination of listening to nearby cellular base stations and looking up the IP address of the Internet connection to work out which country it is in.

   In A Cell-Phone Tower for Your Pocket

6. To comply, it may broadcast over only a very short range, perhaps less than a centimeter.

   In A Cell-Phone Tower for Your Pocket

7. We think this launch will encourage a lot of operators to look at their cost structure and that if they can offer [the system] for free they will.

   In A whispering wireless revolution is on the way

8. If you get a good signal the phone is forced into low-power mode which will extend battery life quite a bit.

   In A whispering wireless revolution is on the way

9. The nice thing about femtos is that you don't need a big bang. You can start with very small numbers and build up. All you need to do is to provide the right incentive for consumers and businesses and the thing will grow.

   In A whispering wireless revolution is on the way

10. Unlike the macro network, it's not engineered in place.

    In Bringing the femtocell outdoors