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Management Report
Published: January 2009
Pages: 95
Tables: 22
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Research from: ARCchart
Sector: Handsets & Devices

Although still in its infancy, the market for femtocells has evolved rapidly over the last two years, moving from a compelling concept but one without clear commercial viability to a reality which could fundamentally alter the mobile telecoms landscape. However, despite its prospects, the industry has been slow to embrace and deploy femtocells, and although Sprint in the US and Starhub in Singapore have dipped a toe in the water, most femtocell deployments are still at trial stage.

Nonetheless, ARCchart anticipates the first large-scale femtocell deployments will arrive in Q2 2009, with the market ramping in 2010. With increasing user demand for mobile broadband data, operators will look to femtocells to improve indoor coverage whilst easing capacity requirements and backhaul costs in their marco-network.

Topics of coverage include:

Understanding the femtocell business case
How a femtocell works
The femtocell vendor investment landscape
Mobile operator strategies
Femtocell deployments in the enterprise
Barriers and driver to femtocell adoption
Technology overview and trends
Profiles of femtocell equipment vendors
Interpretability and standardisation
Femtocell market forecasts
Companies mentioned, discussed or reviewed include:
3
Aglient
Airvana
Airwalk
Alcatel-Lucent
Alpha Networks
AT&T
AT4 Wireless
Atlas Ventures
Bouygues Telecom
BT
Cable & Wireless
China Mobile
Cisco
Clearwire
Dell
DesignArt
Deutsche Telekom
Ericsson
Femto Forum
Fujitsu
Goolge
Hay Systems
Hitachi
HP
Huawei
Intel
Inventel
ip.access
Kineto Wireless
Lenovo
Linksys
mimoON
MobileOne
Mobilkom
Motorola
NEC
NETGEAR
NextPoint
Nokia Siemens Networks
NTT DoCoMo
O2
Option
Orange
Percello
picoChip
Qualcomm
RadioFrame
Scottish Equity Partners
Sequans
SFR
ShoZu
Sierra Wireless
SK Telecom
Softbank
Sprint Nextel
StarHub
Telecom Italia
Telefonica
Telstra
Tesco
Thomson
T-Mobile
Toshiba
Ubiquisys
Verizon
Vodafone
Willtek
Xinwei
Xohm
ZTE
Zyxel

Answers and opinions are provided with respect to the following essential questions:
Why has the take-up of femtocells been so slow?
How big will be the femtocell market opportunity?
How is the femtocell unit price expected to drop over the coming years?
Who are the femtocell vendors leading the cause?
What are the likely femtocell deployment strategies to be adopted by fixed and mobile operators?
How are femtocell expected to be rolled-out across operators and across regions?
What threat do competing technologies like UMA and VCC pose to the femtocell business case?
What if ISPs decide to block femtocell traffic?
How can femtocells help reduce operator churn?
How will the arrival of WiMAX influence the femtocell market?

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