fcisler
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join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
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I keep seeing this. I think it's the buzzword of 2008, so far.
I don't wanna hear anything about them until a (US) company actually starts using them.
We have a cell phone repeater system here. $60k+ - not including nextel. They gave us a deal for nextel, $8k if installed at the same time.
The thing is f'n amazing, except for AT&T keeps doing something stupid to where we have to call usually once a month - they go "everything's fine on our end", then miraculously it works for another month...
Each provider (we have 6 amps, 3 1850 and 3 850 - IIRC) requires their own amp too. As far as I'm told, it's AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. |
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quetwo
That VoIP Guy
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join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI
| We have some femtocells in testing with Verizon and Nextel right now on our campus. This is not the same style that would be deployed in the home (still about the size of my old CRT monitor), but the function would be the same.
Ours are used for CDMA/EVDO and iDEN in very high-population to get additional timeslots to our students. They estimate each one can do about 32 students, or about 6 conversations. The models we have support data, but they are shared over all the cells in the fiber ring. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | I worked for a company that had Nextel deploy them in their stores. The things were a POS. Service still never worked with an actual antenna on the roof and about 40 repeaters in the building.
Dropped NexHELL for Alltel. |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
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join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | reply to fcisler
4Q 2008. |
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wildcat man
join:2007-11-03
Kansas City, MO
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The femtocell deployment that Sprint has put in for Denver, Indy, and Nashville customers is legit. Saw it in action in a home in Fraser, CO which is about 70 miles from downtown Denver. All CDMA devices work on it - we tried 3 simultaneous conversations and that worked too. I like it, as to make Femtocells work very well in the broadband environment, it sure doesn't hurt to have the High Speed Internet provider directly connected to the underlying wireless provider (Clearwire for next gen, Sprint for current gen). Sprint's solution documented at www.sprint.com/airave.
Does anyone in Denver, Indianapolis, or Nashville have femto and how does it work?
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