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 and residential consumers within a few months.

Currently NEC is trialing with a mobile operator in India. However NEC did not name the operator. Telcos BSNL, MTNL and Tata DoCoMo have already launched their 3G services, others are expected to roll out soon in coming months.

"Femtocell promises 3G services with significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction for India's 3G mobile operators who must ensure low network costs after the high cost of 3G licensing, while meeting the needs and expectations of their customers," said Atsushi Kuroda, General Manager, International Sales and Operations Business Unit. 

According to company statement, NEC has 8 contracts worldwide with mobile operators for femtocell system deployments which make up nearly half a million femtocell devices. In addition, NEC has 16 femtocell system trials in progress or that have been completed with mobile operators around the world. It has several commercial contracts in place with the successful deployment of its femtocell solutions by SFR in France, SOFTBANK MOBILE in Japan and Network Norway. This year, NEC is on target to deploy its first 100,000 Femtocell Access Point (FAP) network.