Femtocells Are A No Show > What is the point?

reply to r81984

Re: What is the point?

The GPS locks it down to an area where they have an FCC license to broadcast. Thus if you take it out the USA it will not work.
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Agreed, that probably is going to be a factor.

Assuming you can get around that, I wonder how much of a factor long distance internet latency might play a role in Femto performance while in a data or voice session.

The carrier's IP gateway will still ostensibly be in the US somewhere. If someone were to take the Femto to Europe say, and somehow override the GPS, I wonder if latency would be an issue.
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The audio for a GSM cell phone is only recorded at 13 kbit/s or less and latency is not really going to perceivable even on a satellite connection. Just in travel time alone to the farthest you could travel on earth your latency would be 101 ms + equipment latency + any satellite latency.
No matter where you are the latency should be under 1 second so it will basically not matter.
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reply to Corona
Let's put it this way.

I took a demo unit to South America , I needed to keep my Verizon phone active , It worked great in Brazil Venezuela and Colombia.

Matter of fact , with a wimax modem , and a laptop I was able to fly fish and still be logged into a shell in a boat almost 1 mile into the flats in Santa Marta Colombia, while talking a noc tech through replacing some critical hardware on my vzw phone.

300 ms ping times to the pop where Verizon was grabbing my calls. I had 250 ms pings to miami vpn then between 50 and 100 to the verizon pop where they were taking the traffic.

Not an issue , besides for a tech asking stupid questions about why both power supplies should be shut off to do a motherboard swap
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reply to r81984
Is that a 3G voice session bitrate?

reply to BosstonesOwn
Getting your cell phone to work in another country is the best use of this device.

That is nice that verizon does not gps lock their devices like ATT does.
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No the verizon one is actually constrained by gps as well.

just have to beat it