The global femtocell market is poised for explosive growth over the next five years, as forecasts predict that the number of units shipped will balloon from 1 million this year to as high as 62 million by 2014.
Analysts expect falling prices, rising demand from enterprises and more metro market deployments to provide the momentum.
Korea Telecom has announced plans to open its networks for the nation’s first MVNOs – prepaid service providers Free Telecom and Evergreen Mobile, and mobile content provider Entaz.
It seems that just as the furor in Brazilian mobile appears to have died, with Telefónica finally getting its hands on Vivo, further disruption is on the horizon.
This time it is Vodafone that is determined to enter the huge market.
Brazil is one of the top five growth economies for mobile services, but unlike Spanish rival
Two operator-backed software groups have joined forces in an effort to give carriers more heft in competing with Apple and Google apps.
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) and the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) say their planned wholesale apps ecosystem will be open for business by February 2011.
Vodafone is plotting a new strategy to account for growth in mobile data services, after a strong fiscal 1Q11 was driven by high demand for data in key markets.
The world’s largest carrier is ready to make the switch after its current strategy helped it report its
India’s telecom operators have remained unflinching in their objection to the government’s proposals to take back spectrum in the 900MHz band, replacing it with 1800MHz wavelengths.
In a meeting with the Department of Telecom yesterday, GSM operators also refused to budge on their resistance to regulator Trai’s plan to charge a one-time fee for existing 2G spectrum,
Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s top digital business official, has chastised EU operators for failing to do more to reduce roaming rates, and suggested that competition is still not strong enough.
The EC-mandated roaming rate caps have led to a 60-70% reduction in call and SMS rates since 2005, but
The rollout of femtocells across the globe is gaining momentum but as with all new technologies, price will be the key to success.
UK research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says femtocell deployments have more than doubled in the last nine months as more and more tier one operators jump on the bandwagon.
