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The Femtocell Market: Boom or Bust?

Published on 07/01/2008 at 08:28 AM

I recently attended the Avren Events European Femtocell events and an analyst colleague from a different firm (who shall remain nameless) predicted a market of 9 million Femtocells in 2012.  This raises some very interesting thoughts.  If the market turns out to be only 9 million units per annum, the VC funded start-ups, that have added so much innovation to this market ,will have burned so much cash that they would have been acquired of would have gone out of business.  This will leave us with the same old faces running the show. More importantly, there will be absolutely no diversity in this market in any strata - not a good thing.

More importantly, a 9 million unit market in 4 years is hardly something to c ...

Nokia to Acquire Symbian and Go "Open"

Published on 06/24/2008 at 05:55 AM

Big news broke today when Nokia announced that it will purchase the remaining stock it doesn't own in Symbian and then migrate the solution to an "Open" platform.  Anyone that has followed the Symbian environment for long enough would see that there has been financial pressure on Nokia to move in this direction at some point. The sheer economics of the number of devices it ships with the OS versus the value it gets out of its historic shareholding clearly indicated that such a purchase was inevitable at some point.

The real added spice in this announcement is that Nokia is openly stating that it will offer the OS in a more "open" way. As the press release from Nokia stated, "A full platform ...

Clearwire Says 30M subs by 2017

Published on 06/12/2008 at 01:06 PM

As a public company, I think Clearwire is playing the role of Cautiously Conservative Clearwire.


Depending on how fast they can get many consumer electronics devices using WiMAX before LTE devices, and depending on how palatable service pricing will be, they could have a greater number of subscribers by an earlier year. This is such a new territory and there are so many wildcards.  And if you are looking at NA, then you have to add the spectrum and potential of Xanadoo, Horizon WiComm, small ISPs, etc. as well, and then also add Inukshuk, which could possibly adopt a strategy of mirroring Clearwire, much like Alltel has done with Verizon Wireless.

The Open Patent Alliance for WiMAX IP - A Potentially Good Thing

Published on 06/12/2008 at 01:02 PM

Intel started the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) as yet another way to drive the WiMAX ecosystem forward.  The initial members include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel, Samsung, and Sprint.  Is this meaningful?  Yes, but not yet.  This is a step in the right direction and there are some heavy patent holders here, but it needs more heavy patent holders.  I am confident it wll gain more members over time, but certainly will not have all the important relevant companies as far as WiMAX-related IP.  ABI will be watching the OPA over the next year or two to see how many more members it can gain.

One thing the OPA is doing a bit different is that they will let non-mobile wireless companies join as ...

Femtocell Trials to Start in Singapore

Published on 05/09/2008 at 02:26 AM

Singapore will have its first taste of femtocell this mid May following the announcement from its No. 2 mobile operator, StarHub. 200 of its existing cable broadband customers will test the technology over a six-month period to assess its ability to improve residential wireless coverage and consequently drives data services adoption. The trials would be an assessment to the effectiveness of the technology in Singapore dense city and buy time for the carrier to develop suitable busine ...

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