Alex Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 http://www.femtoforum.org/femto/index.php http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/08/43104/motorola-netgear-demo-femtocells-at-mobile-world-congress.htm http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d2b599c387478110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD&vgnextchannel=53ea08b109b86110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD For those who can't click on the links and read for themselves, Femtocells are 3G "in home/office" boosters. Has anyone used one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hehehehehe... As it happens I've used them in the past. I had one at home back in 2005, Siemens unit which used an S65(I think) phone. They do work 'okay' but they aren't all they are cracked up to be. The other issue was that it needed to be an unlocked phone and did all sorts of strange routing as it appeared as its own base station and network provider. The technology wasn't mature enough at the time and I gave up with it and went with a blackberry which uses my home wifi and routes it over the internet anyway to Blackberry (voice and data)...(Also it was only 2G at the time) I reckon the technology has moved along rather nicely now, but given the way the operators guard their networks, unless you are a megacorp they aren't going to open up the inbound systems to Joe Public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Interesting. Nope, never used one. I should think the operator would have to allow/provision the equipment.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 For a home system(Okay my definition of a home system), I'd consider having a VOIP backbone with something such as asterix providing the VOIP routing. Have your normal landline coming into the VOIP system, and have a dock system for your mobile which via a bit of software fudging will answer the mobile and route it down the VOIP system. The idea being, you have two handsets... one for inside the house-range being WiFi, and then your mobile. The system would be able to realize which phone is docked and route the calls accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Just a bump. Voda are going to be offering them.... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/vodafone_femtocell/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Just a bump. Voda are going to be offering them.... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/vodafone_femtocell/ The price was unexpected though. Pay for the cell and the handset. To extend your mobile coverage. Next they'll offer to dig up your patio and install a mobile phone mast. It'll be cheap of course And quite frankly what are the pro sides to having it? Unless you start hacking it to take it abroad for roaming etc and have a proxy at home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Slightly off topic, but at work we recently moved from Orange to O2. The MD lives out in the country and his O2 signal is non existant, so we got recommended one of the units from this company http://mobilerepeater.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=95&osCsid=f06c1ea9c5e3408e9ffce589578827dd He has not installed it yet but we hope it will help. Not really related to the original discussion, but thought it may be of interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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