15th February 2012, London, UK – The Femto Forum today announced it is to be renamed the Small Cell Forum in order to better reflect its work which embraces residential, enterprise, metro and rural small cells, as well as to prevent the perception that the small cell arena is fragmented.
Seventeen manufacturers have so far adopted the Femto Forum APIs for their upcoming LTE products including Airvana, AirWalk Communications, Broadcom, Cisco, Freescale, ip.access, mimoOn , Mindspeed, Picochip, Radisys, Tata Elxsi, Texas Instruments and Ubiquisys amongst others.
Femtocells appeal to the majority of US broadband householders with mobile phones according to Femto Forum, an independent industry and operator association .
The Femto Forum has announced the winners of the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010. The awards recognize outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry.
Femto Forum has announced its second plugfest interoperability testing event which will focus on the Broadband Forum’s femtocell management standard.
March 30, 2010 - The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced it has completed the world’s first femtocell plugfe
March 30, 2010 - Airvana today announced the company's successful participation in the "1st Femto Forum UMTS Femtocell Plugfest" which took place earlier this month. At the Plugfest, Airvana
March 23, 2010 - 3GPP2, building on a collaborative partnership with the Femto Forum, has reached a major milestone for the deployment of multi-vendor femtocell networks based on CDMA2000 radio acc
March 23, 2010 - Detailed Research Demonstrates That Femtocells Improve the Operator Business Case for LTE & WiMAX Networks While Also Significantly Improving the User Experience and the Range