Why you might end up with a mobile base station in your house
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By silicon.com staff on 13 February 2008 12:35
Watch the latest silicon.com video Cheat Sheet to find out what femtocells are - and why they might be one way to improve mobile coverage and get cheaper mobile calls.
silicon.com deputy editor Andy McCue and reporter Natasha Lomas discuss the prospects for what could be the next big thing for broadband and mobile.
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1. anonymous
Why the questionable business case?
Ask anyone who has a large building or factory in a boarderline reception area,
or even a house in a dead reception area, they'd jump at the chance to have one of these, just for the convienience - you really wouldn't care that the call was being routed down your broadband (at your cost).
i'd have one at home and several at work!
2. anonymous
Seems like a defensive move from the mobile companies.
Femto is presumably used because the cell is even smaller then nano and pico cells.
From a consumer point of view it I'd have thought it would have been better to add wifi to the phone and use the existing wireless broadband that most people have (and that has a much greater bandwidth).
Wlan based products are already better for media distributed over broadband. eg streaming tv over broadband/wlan to a tablet pc.
There seems to be no reason for femto cells, other than to keep mobile companies in the revenue loop.