Thursday, August 18, 2011

AT&T slows down on femtocells

AT&T has pulled back on deployment of femtocells, citing interference problems in areas with relatively high signal strength.

This is no surprise! Mobile Experts published a study in 2009 that indicated severe interference problems, even with femtocells that were "optimized" to avoid interference. So AT&T should not be so surprised that there are RF interference problems...

Our sources indicate that over the past six months, the AT&T deployment has dropped by more than 50% compared to the previous six months. They are now reserving their "Microcell" (femtocell) deployments to customers that have one-bar coverage in their homes. This is EXACTLY what we predicted and it shows that the consumer femto is truly a coverage solution only, and does not help in a congested network.

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