Femtocell

[Tad G]

I'd do that if calls made through it were free.  As the representative in the mall (ha!) told me though, calls made through that device were billed at the same rate as through their network, so no gain for me except for signal.  I'll use my better-featured VOIP in that case.

-Tad

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From: "WB4JFI" <wb4jfi at knology.net>
To: "Alex Fraser" <beatnic at comcast.net>, tacos at amrad.org
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:59:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: Femtocell


AT&T supposedly has one coming out soon. They don't use RF to connect to a nearby cell site, instead they use your broadband as the backhaul to the carrier. I'm interested in using one, since my AT&T cells don't work in my house. But, I'm not sure what the cost is. Yea, the lingo is a little warped.... Terry 

-----Original Message----- 
From: tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at amrad.org [mailto:tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Alex Fraser 
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:17 AM 
To: tacos at amrad.org 
Subject: Femtocell 

I just learned about these. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell 


Anybody got one? 

Love the lingo 

" 
Home Node B ( HNB ) 


In May 2008, the 3GPP completed a feasibility study of femtocell network architectures. Architectures including Cellular Base Station , Collapsed Stack and UMA/GAN were evaluated. As a result, the 3GPP is pursuing a new Home Node B (or HNB) reference architecture which builds on elements from both the Collapsed Stack and UMA/GAN approaches. 

As the 3GPP completes the formal standard towards at the end of 2008, vendors and operators will migrate to support this new architecture for 3G femtocells. 

Note the 3GPP refers to 3G femtocells as Home Node Bs (HNBs)." 

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