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Small Cell

Mosaic Telecom Launches Home Cell Product with Ubiquisys AWS Femtocells

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Mosaic Telecom Homecell

Swindon, UK - 17th February 2012 - Mosaic Telecom, the regional US operator serving rural Wisconsin, is now providing its customers with femtocells based on the 3GPP Release 9 open standard. The Mosaic Home Cell is provided by Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE small cells, as part of a Nokia Siemens Networks femtocell solution.

ip.access announces plans for first LTE small cell

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Cambridge February 16, 2012:  Small cell market leader ip.access today confirmed plans to build its first integrated LTE and 3G small cell.  The new unit, codenamed the E-100, will be the first from ip.access to be based on the QorIQ Qonverge® platform from US chip maker Freescale.

Quortus Signals Small Cell Future by Adding Core Intelligence to the Edge

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Guildford, UK 16th February 2012 - Quortus, the company transforming core network functionality into edge-based applications, today announced the launch of its EdgeCentrix product which transforms heavy iron core networks into software applications that can be installed at small cell sites.

Femto Forum Becomes Small Cell Forum as Femtocell Technology Extends Beyond the Home

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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 vendors adopt Femto Forum LTE small cell APIs

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Femto API

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.

Infonetics: Femtocell market set to double in 2012

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Market research firm Infonetics Research expects global femtocell revenue nearly to double this year while unit shipments grow at nearly 140% compared to 2011.

Mindspeed to Acquire 'Small Cells' Maker Picochip

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Mindspeed  Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire U.K.based Picochip Limited for a purchase price of approx $51.8 million, plus a potential earnout paymen

SK Telecom develops Wi-Fi Integrated LTE Femtocell

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SK Telecom has completed the development of 'Wi-Fi Integrated LTE Femtocell,' which provides both LTE and Wi-Fi services simultaneously.

37 Femtocell deployments in 23 countries

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Growing number of operators are committing to LTE small cell deployments which are expected to form a key market trend in 2012, said a recent Informa Telecoms &amp