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Femtocells: U.S. Market Prospects looks at how femtocells will affect the competitive landscape of the North American telecom market, not just among wireless carriers, but also among telcos and MSOs. The report also profiles 16 leading femtocell equipment vendors, offering insight into which companies are best positioned to emerge as key players in this market.
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If femtocells become a true mainstream offering, wireline network operators could see some serious revenue erosion - and not just from continuing displacement of wireline voice services. Even a slight hiccup could create a fairly significant tremor for network operators that already are struggling with revenue erosion.
None of these issues are trivial, which is the main reason why 2008 will be a year of limited trials in the North American market, with major deployments unlikely until 2009 or 2010. Another barrier to near-term deployments is cost: There's a broad consensus among equipment vendors and wireless carriers that to be a mass-market play, femtocells must retail for significantly less than $100. Whether that price point is achieved by vendors wringing out costs, through deep operator subsidies, or both, is yet another issue that the industry will spend 2008 trying to figure out.
Although femtocells are generally viewed as the domain of wireless carriers, it's a mistake to dismiss telcos and cable multiple system operators (MSOs) as players in this space. Their roles directly affect a wireless carrier's ability to successfully offer femtocells. Telcos and MSOs could also serve as important partners for wireless carriers that lack wired broadband and video services, such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA.
The complete report need to be bought...
[anyways... this is a hidden blog :P]
Source: Various
Femtocells: U.S. Market Prospects looks at how femtocells will affect the competitive landscape of the North American telecom market, not just among wireless carriers, but also among telcos and MSOs. The report also profiles 16 leading femtocell equipment vendors, offering insight into which companies are best positioned to emerge as key players in this market.
Aww! I want that report.... !
One more source
If femtocells become a true mainstream offering, wireline network operators could see some serious revenue erosion - and not just from continuing displacement of wireline voice services. Even a slight hiccup could create a fairly significant tremor for network operators that already are struggling with revenue erosion.
| Femtocells: U.S. Market Prospects |
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| If there's one safe bet regarding femtocells, it's that success or bust, they're guaranteed to go down in telecom history as one of the most-watched and most-hyped technologies ever. Beyond that it's a crapshoot, because most service providers and equipment vendors are still trying to figure out where femtocells fit in to their network architectures and service plans. That fit is both literal and figurative: Literally, for example, most vendors are still knee-deep in critical integration issues such as avoiding interference between femtocells and the macrocellular network, and integration with an operator's operations/billing support system (OSS/BSS). On the figurative side, wireless carriers are hashing out whether femtocells should be used to encourage more wireline displacement, including cable VOIP, to tame rising cell-site backhaul costs, and whether they can be used to reduce churn among high-value customers. |
None of these issues are trivial, which is the main reason why 2008 will be a year of limited trials in the North American market, with major deployments unlikely until 2009 or 2010. Another barrier to near-term deployments is cost: There's a broad consensus among equipment vendors and wireless carriers that to be a mass-market play, femtocells must retail for significantly less than $100. Whether that price point is achieved by vendors wringing out costs, through deep operator subsidies, or both, is yet another issue that the industry will spend 2008 trying to figure out.
Although femtocells are generally viewed as the domain of wireless carriers, it's a mistake to dismiss telcos and cable multiple system operators (MSOs) as players in this space. Their roles directly affect a wireless carrier's ability to successfully offer femtocells. Telcos and MSOs could also serve as important partners for wireless carriers that lack wired broadband and video services, such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA.
The complete report need to be bought...