Femtocell

[Michael O'Dell]

oops - make that 419!


Michael O'Dell wrote:
> Yup - the femtocell is an utterly brilliant scam
> good enough to have a 914 area code.
> 
> the cellular carriers use the Internet connection you pay for,
> probably to another company, to backhaul your cellphone traffic
> to their IP cellular core, avoiding the use of their RF channel
> bandwidth so they can oversell it even more - and you pay
> *them* to do it!
> 
> you are paying for the build-out they aren't doing to provide
> adequate coverage in residential areas
> 
> once again, the residential consumers are subsidizing
> the business customers, just like it used to be!
> 
> oh yeah - i'm gonna go out and buy one of those *real soon now*.
> i'd happily buy an RF repeater, but i'm not using my internet
> connection to subsidize their business
> 
>     -mo
> 
> ps - the old "common wisdum" that business subsidized residential
> phone users was not true for the last 30 years of wire-line
> supremacy.
> 
> WB4JFI wrote:
>> 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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Node_B>)
>>
>>     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
>>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G> femtocells.
>>
>>     Note the 3GPP refers to 3G femtocells as Home Node Bs (HNBs)."
>>
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