April 22, 2010 - Regional operator Cellcom is launching its first femtocell, but it has more planned for the box than just indoor coverage – including placing a femto with every customer

Cellcom may be a small operator in the Midwest, but it has outsized plans for turning the femtocell from a mere indoor coverage solution into a services platform.

The operator is about to embark on its first femtocell project in the next 90 days, offering the miniature base stations to its small business and enterprise customers. Those initial trials will focus on coverage, but according to executive vice president Rob Riordan, Cellcom plans to migrate as quickly as it can to a full suite of fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services in both the home of and business. The result will be the femtocell’s transformation from a coverage extender to a communications and multimedia hub.

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