Femto Forum Announced major new members, working groups & website

Yesterday we were able to announce major new members who have joined the Femto Forum over the summer, including vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia-Siemens Networks and NEC plus operators including Telefonica-O2, Bharti Airtel, Rogers Wireless, Bouyges Telecom and Carphone Warehouse Networks.

We also gave details of the four working groups we have set up to addresss various technical, market and regulatory aspects of femtocells.

 

Some stories relating to this release include the following:

Big operators, vendors join Femto Forum

EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802834

Femtocells get a bit bigger

The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/femto_forum_gets_bigger/

Operators Flock to Femto Forum

Unstrung http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=138296

Femto Forum in the News

Some of the initial press coverage following the launch of Femto Forum:



Netgear to use Ubiquisys femtocell technology
Computerwire

28 June 2007
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6B345D38-97BB-4B0A-9325-E016CDA5BE4C
Phemtophobia

Telecoms.com/A week in wireless newsletter
29 June 2007
http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/expertview/articles/20017437298.html
Femtocell flurry
TotalTele.com
3 July 2007
http://www.totaltele.com/View.aspx?t=2&ID=93520
Femto Forum promises very small cells
The Register & Newswireless.net

2 July 2007
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/02/femto_forum/
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3489
Industry Forms Femto Forum
Unstrung
2 July 2007
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=128161
The Femto Forum is Born
Fierce Broadband Wireless
2 July 2007
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/the-femto-forum-is-born/2007-07-02
Femtocells gain ground with Netgear support and new Forum
Wireless Watch
2 July 2007
Newsletter
Forum formed to focus on femtocell development

EE Times
2 July 2007
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001834
Femtocell Forum Plans Standards Drive
Computerwire
2 July 2007
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=10AFB764%2D13B1%2D4B2B%2D9D74%2D499D0AA11CFF
Femto Forum promises base stations in homes
Techworld
3 July 2007
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsid=9350
Open standards forum opens for femtocell firms
Electronics Weekly
2 July 2007
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/02/41719/Open+standards+forum+opens+for+femtocell+firms.htm
Femtocell heads get it together
Telecom Redux
2 July 2007
http://www.telecomredux.co.uk/content/view/4504/1/
Femto Forum Launched
3g.co.uk
2 July 2007
http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/July2007/4862.htm
Femto Forum Formed For Support And Promotion Of Femtocell Deployment Worldwide
RF Globalnet
2 July 2007

http://www.rfglobalnet.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=324238f3-f674-404f-afea-ebdb1980b080&atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a
Femto Forum launches to promote femtocell deployment
Telecompaper
2 July 2007
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=174262&nr=
Key Announcements
inbabble.com
2 July 2007
http://inbabble.com/2007/07/03/briefbabble-iphone-helio-t-mobile-uma-clearwire-voip-femto-forum-grandcentral/
Femtocell-mates multiply

Telecom Redux
2 July 2007
http://www.telecomredux.co.uk/content/view/4503/1/
The Femto Forum - Major Operators and Vendors Join Forces in New Body to Promote Femtocell Standardisation and Deployment

TMC Net
2 July 2007
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/07/02/2754783.htm

The Femto Forum goes live!

West Sussex

I have recently been appointed founding chairman of The Femto Forum, an independent, inclusive, international body promoting the deployment of femtocells. Femtocells are low power home access points using cellular standards and licensed spectrum to provide dedicated home coverage and capacity to standard mobile devices. Femto Forum has major operators and vendors both big and small as its members, and launches publically tomorrow.

Femto Forum will drive standards to ensure femtocells can be manufactured cheaply enough to be suitable for home use, will provide market education to ensure the benefits of femtocells are well understood, and will develop the 'ecosystem' of operators and vendors to help create a thriving industry.

I'm produ to be involved with such an exciting area of technology, which is one of the development which promises to finally fulfill the latent promise of in-building wireless which has been apparent over the last decade or so.
Simon

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board

I'm delighted to announce that I have just been appointed to the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board (www.osab.org.uk). OSAB provides independent advice to Ofcom (www.ofcom.org.uk) on strategic spectrum management issues. It provides input directly to Ofcom's main board. This gives me a great opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of (and potentially to influence) Ofcom's future direction on spectrum matters. I also get to interact with some very interesting people, namely:

• Sir David Brown - Chairman of Motorola Limited
• Dr David Cleevely - Founder of Analysys and previous Chairman of Analysys Limited
• Professor Leela Damodaran - leads the Information, Technology and Society Research Group at Loughborough University
• Professor Barry Evans -  Director of the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) at University of Surrey
• Debbie Gillatt - Director, Communications Networks at the Department of Trade and Industry
• Phillipa Marks - Director of Indepen Consulting
• Andrew Sleigh - Managing Director, Knowledge and Information Systems Division for QinetiQ
• Professor Will Stewart - Previously the Chief Scientist at Marconi
• Stephen Temple CBE - Previously Director of Strategic Projects, Vodafone and Managing Director of the Networks Division of ntl
• Dr Walter Tuttlebee - Chief Executive of the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications - Mobile VCE
• Robert Pepper - Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco Systems Inc and previously Bureau Chief at the FCC
• Professor Tommaso Valletti - Professor of Economics at Imperial College London and at the University of Rome