Femtocell

[Robert E. Seastrom]

More like 809...  http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp

Northwestern Ohio is more noted for rust belt industries than for
telecommunications-related scams, despite having an NPA with a
suspicious resemblance to a notorious section of Nigerian penal code.

-r

"Michael O'Dell" <mo at ccr.org> writes:

> 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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