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story category Comcast Testing WiMax Femtocells
May, may not be deployed sometime in 2010
04:12PM Wednesday Nov 11 2009 by Karl Bode
tags: business · alternatives · cable · VoIP
Comcast is reportedly in the midst of testing femtocells, devices which essentially act as an indoor tower for wireless voice and data services -- allowing you to place calls over your home broadband connection. Comcast's investment deal with Clearwire included a provision that set aside 5 MHz of spectrum solely for WiMAX femtocells, but an anonymous source tells Fierce Wireless that deployment of the service won't happen until next year -- if it happens at all. Comcast of course offers re-branded Clearwire wireless broadband service as part of a new suite of bundles being offered in three markets so far. Ultimately, Clearwire and Comcast will likely deploy voice services over the Mobile WiMax network. Given the initial problems users are seeing with Clearwire signal, femtocells will likely be a necessary evolution.

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DaveNJ
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? why do i want this ?

I dont understand, i am at home, where the internet is available? Why would i want to use this ? Is not like i cant use WIFI. If i have a cordless phone , and comcast voice, again why do i want this ?
jimness000

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Re: ? why do i want this ?

You might want it so that you could have mobile internet at higher speeds than typical cell connections. And, since you'd have it for that purpose, you'd cancel your land connection and go 100% WiMax.

wifi4milez
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Re: ? why do i want this ?

said by jimness000 See Profile :

You might want it so that you could have mobile internet at higher speeds than typical cell connections. And, since you'd have it for that purpose, you'd cancel your land connection and go 100% WiMax.
You could have higher mobile speeds at home, but you cant cancel your "land connection" because the femto needs an internet connection itself in order to work.
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PGHammer

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Re: ? why do i want this ?

said by wifi4milez See Profile :

said by jimness000 See Profile :

You might want it so that you could have mobile internet at higher speeds than typical cell connections. And, since you'd have it for that purpose, you'd cancel your land connection and go 100% WiMax.
You could have higher mobile speeds at home, but you cant cancel your "land connection" because the femto needs an internet connection itself in order to work.
What he means is that you can cancel your *landline connection* (remember, femtocell software can be an add-in to router software, such as Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT, or as a hardware-based add-on (router + hardware femtocell, much as WiMax is deployed today in the EU); both approaches are possible).

The Internet connection can be CHSI (that is used by WiFi VoIP today), so why is VoIP over WiMax impossible, or even implausible?

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Re: ? why do i want this ?

said by PGHammer See Profile :

femtocell software can be an add-in to router software, such as Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT
No, a femtocell is a hardware device that has a 'cellular' radio built in. It is meant to communicate with cellphones, its not the same thing as wifi.

said by PGHammer See Profile :

or as a hardware-based add-on (router + hardware femtocell)
You are correct about this, it would need to be a dual function device (or a standalone femto which wouldnt make sense in this case) in order to be feasible.
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Re: ? why do i want this ?

What could be the case is a femtocell that is a combination device (wireless + femtocell).

It could even be the equivalent of a network device (femtocell that connects to a router via Ethernet) so it could be used to connect to customer-owned routers, or both.

(Such a femtocell would be the equivalent of a home Mifi device, or T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home, but based on femto tech.)

hablaba

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Explain...

What is the point?
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Possible Explanation

If Comcast has their own dedicated femtocell spectrum, they can choose to integrate femtocells into their CPEs (modem + router + homepoint + femtocell anyone?) and improve in-building coverage.

This helps both Clear and Comcast, since both have a better-coverage product for mobile broadband (and eventually mobile voice; fixed voice is available through Clear and Comcast right now, albeit via disparate methods). It also might get Clear to give Comcast a discount on mobile broadband subscribers, since network load on Clear would be lower in Comcast-heavy areas (WiMAX traffic would be backhauled over the cable network rather than over Clear's links...Comcast with DOCSIS 3 has enough capacity to make this happen).
hemzer

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Goodness me

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w0g
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o_O

There are many benefits here. WiMAX has greater range than WiMAX, there will be voice devices/cellphones that use WiMAX, stuff like that. It will be used where WiMAX signal is unavailable and for faster local applications.
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emptywig
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Good lord...

...why do we keep hearing about this stupid femtocell nonsense. A few years ago we were hearing about how big they were gonna be. Same with Wimax. Now its Wimax femtocells? Come on.

Someone wake me when this show is over.

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