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Re: Good for everyone - Except Landline Providers It makes sense from a telco perspective because it gives you service in your home, and they don't ever have to build out their network any further, to offer "real" coverage. It's a cop out! |
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| said by mike12806:It makes sense from a telco perspective because it gives you service in your home, and they don't ever have to build out their network any further, to offer "real" coverage. It's a cop out! Well I look at it in a different way - it lets me the user guarantee that I have great reception in my home with the assumption that they provide basic acceptable coverage (outside) in the true sense of cellular technology which is overlapping concentric "circles" of signals.
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1 edit | Your perspective hinges on the fact that if there was to be widespread femtocell adoption, carries would still invest in new towers and improved coverage. That is something neither of us can predict. The other thing is what about people who switch carriers? Will Sprint take the box back if you decide to drop them? Are there contracts with this service, or is it contract free like their WiMax service?
For your average telco subscriber who doesn't know what VOIP is, doesn't know the difference between GSM/CDMA/Iden, and can barely configure their home WiFi, are they going to see a value and neccesity in this, or are they going to be wooed by the simplicity of a "triple play" package from Comcast, ATT, or Verizon? Sprint needs to be able to convince people that they need this, or market it as home phone replacement! |
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| We won't know until it happens. My guess is that the majority)of the average users will take the "easiest" way out, be it - triple play etc. but the market will decide.
Hey - who knows but femtocells could be the next Betamax  |
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| It's too bad something like T-Mobile's UMA, which uses wi-fi, can't be integrated at the phone level, thereby allowing the phone to use any wifi network as it's "backhaul". That would eliminate the need for femtocell hardware or the UMA router that T-Mobile provides. (Most) homes already have wifi, right? |
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said by mike12806:It makes sense from a telco perspective because it gives you service in your home, and they don't ever have to build out their network any further, to offer "real" coverage. It's a cop out! Thank you. Why should I shell out cash to pick up the slack for the cell phone company? Femto service is just a way for providers to offload their costs of dealing with network coverage gaps entirely on to the customer.
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
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said by mike12806:It's too bad something like T-Mobile's UMA, which uses wi-fi, can't be integrated at the phone level, thereby allowing the phone to use any wifi network as it's "backhaul". That would eliminate the need for femtocell hardware or the UMA router that T-Mobile provides. (Most) homes already have wifi, right? You haven't studied T-mo's UMA service very well. T-mo's UMA phones CAN use any wi-fi network. You don't HAVE to use their special router, they only provide it for convenience. I've had T-mo's UMA service for a year and a half, and it works fine on my Linksys running DD-WRT. Works great at my friends' houses too. If the wi-fi is secure, I just get the key from the friend and type it into the phone. |
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