Not before time, mobile service providers outside Asia are beginning to wake up to the fact that providing coverage inside, as well as outside a building is important.
What do femtocells, or picocells mean to you? Is your mobile provider taking them seriously?
Natives of Hong Kong and Seoul, are always surprised when visting their friends in London, Paris or New York how residents of these major cities consider it inevitable that they will loose their mobile signal when they go underground or even drive through a tunnel. It doesn't have to be that way. There's no technical reason not to have repeaters or local, mini cell towers, and if they are really small they're called pico or femto.
Vodafone Group plc, Telefónica O2 Europe plc, and TeliaSonera AB all made announcements of trials this week at the show in Barcelona. Cisco just took an equity position in ip.access. It's beginning to happen for the rest of us.
When the network is accessible anywhere how will service providers differentiate themselves? Back when AT&T Mobility called itself Cingular, it claimed (for a while) that it had the fewest dropped calls. Verizon Wireless claims to have "America's Most Reliable Wireless Network". What happens when the network always works, even on the train to work in the morning?
How will subscribers use the network? For shopping, talking, navigating, watching TV, listening to sports?
How should providers charge for services that benefit from these always on connections?
TeleSciences has solutions to help providers make decisions in real-time. To make sense of all the information that comes from their networks. These systems will help them to deliver better services, faster, rather than just worry about dropping calls.
Just think, soon you'll be able to use your mobile in your own house without having to stick your head out the window. Radical.
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