More than Residential: Femtocell Deployment Beyond the Home

摘要

Femtocells are now a commercial reality. Launches by AT&T and Vodafone, amongst others, have brought femtocells into the consumer sphere. This first wave of femtocells is targeted at residential users, solving coverage and data coverage issues in the home, and femtocells are an ideal solution to the problem.rnBut operators are also focused on improving data coverage and capacity issues outside the home, where femtocell technology is starting to be used. The challenge for operators is to provide reliable and secure high bandwidth data and services to consumers in other indoor locations, such as shopping malls, consumers in isolated or rural locations, and also to enterprise customers.