According to a recent Informa Telecoms & Media report, there are now in excess of 2.3 million 3G femtocells globally compared to 1.6 million 3G macrocells.

Mobile operator capital expenditure is expected to grow 5% in 2011, to reach $119 billion.

Zain Kuwait has selected NEC’s Femtocell solution to enhance the indoor mobile experience of its enterprise and consumer customers.

Femto Forum has published an operator friendly guide to the LTE femtocell architecture options in the 3GPP standard.

Ubiquisys is collaborating with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop a new generation of small cells designed to meet the strong growth in mobile data consumption.

SK Telecom has held a 4G LTE network demonstration in South Korea at its Bundang Building’s LTE Test-bed and plan to introduce innovative LTE services in July 2011.

Optus has commenced the commercial pilot of 3G Femtocell device for Australian consumers.

The recent CTIA exposition in Orlando demonstrated the industry-wide agreement that the only solution to the evolving wireless broadband capacity crunch is a heterogeno

The Femto Forum has published an industry-wide agreed set of API specifications that enable advanced mobile applications based on femtocell technology.

Picochip has announced that its picoArray(tm) technology has been selected to implement LTE and other wireless processing in Airspan’s new multi-standard ‘small cell’ b

Last week Picochip held public demonstration of a commercial LTE femtocell eNodeB basestation working with terminals.

The Femto Forum has successfully completed its second plugfest which focused on femtocell management. The series of plugfests aim to cultivate an effective ecosystem of standardised femtocells.

Ubiquisys and the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) are working together to develop open source product-oriented LTE network simulator.

Ubiquisys has announced a personal femtocell – attocell.

SK Telecom has selected Samsung Electronics, LG-Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks as key equipment suppliers for its 4G LTE network.

Mosaic Telecom, a rural service provider in the United States has selected Nokia Siemens Networks’ LTE technology to use its existing 700 MHz and 1700/2100 MHz bands to deliver wireless…

The Femto Forum and international research firm Parks Associates have announced that femtocells, small wireless base stations designed to provide five bars of local wir

Picochip has shared its vision for next-generation femtocells, including picoXcell™ technology that will allow its customers to create an entire 3G cellular basestation

Before we offer predictions for the coming year, it is worthwhile to take a look at how our forecasts for the current year have worked out.  

Picochip has announced support for Iub network architectures to its recently-launched picoXcell PC333 HSPA+ device, and plans for an optimized dual-mode LTE/HSPA+ bases

Telecom solutions provider Argela has selected Picochip as the core technology supplier for its femtocell developments.

Earlier this week NEC announced the launch of 3G Femtocell solution in India to enable operators to offer high-quality, high-speed 3G mobile services to its enterprise

Ubiquisys has announced a new standards-compliant 3G femtocell solution with Nokia Siemens Networks.

3GPP has enhanced Local IP Access and IP Traffic Offload for femtocells in Release 10.

Broadcom Corporation has announced acquisition of Percello Ltd, a semiconductor company that offers digital baseband processors for WCDMA and LTE Femtocells.  

Since 4G World 2010 opened yesterday, companies are

Cellcom, a provider of communications services throughout Wisconsin and Michiga,  has selected the Bridgewater to deliver IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) femtocell services and for its LTE netwo

Femto Forum has published a set of APIs to enable LTE femtocell semiconductors and protocol software stacks from different vendors to interoperate. 

Tata Elxsi has announced the availability of its optimized LTE Femto/Pico eNodeB solution compliant to 3GPP Release 8 and Femto Forum specifications.

Femtocells appeal to the majority of US broadband householders with mobile phones according to Femto Forum, an independent industry and operator association .