Although still in its infancy, the market for femtocells has evolved rapidly over the last two years, moving from a compelling concept but one without clear commercial viability to a reality which could fundamentally alter the mobile telecoms landscape. However, despite its prospects, the industry has been slow to embrace and deploy femtocells, and although Sprint in the US and Starhub in Singapore have dipped a toe in the water, most femtocell deployments are still at trial stage.

Nonetheless, ARCchart anticipates the first large-scale femtocell deployments will arrive in Q2 2009, with the market ramping in 2010. With increasing user demand for mobile broadband data, operators will look to femtocells to improve indoor coverage whilst easing capacity requirements and backhaul costs in their marco-network.

Topics of coverage include:

• Understanding the femtocell business case
• How a femtocell works
• The femtocell vendor investment landscape
• Mobile operator strategies
• Femtocell deployments in the enterprise
• Barriers and driver to femtocell adoption
• Technology overview and trends
• Profiles of femtocell equipment vendors
• Interpretability and standardisation
• Femtocell market forecasts

Companies mentioned, discussed or reviewed include:

3 Aglient Airvana Airwalk Alcatel-Lucent Alpha Networks AT&T AT4 Wireless Atlas Ventures Bouygues Telecom BT Cable & Wireless China Mobile Cisco Clearwire Dell DesignArt Deutsche Telekom Ericsson Femto Forum Fujitsu Goolge Hay Systems Hitachi

HP Huawei Intel Inventel ip.access Kineto Wireless Lenovo Linksys mimoON MobileOne Mobilkom Motorola NEC NETGEAR NextPoint Nokia Siemens Networks NTT DoCoMo O2 Option Orange Percello picoChip Qualcomm RadioFrame

Scottish Equity Partners Sequans SFR ShoZu Sierra Wireless SK Telecom Softbank Sprint Nextel StarHub Telecom Italia Telefonica Telstra Tesco Thomson T-Mobile Toshiba Ubiquisys Verizon Vodafone Willtek Xinwei Xohm ZTE Zyxel

Answers and opinions are provided with respect to the following essential questions:

• Why has the take-up of femtocells been so slow?
• How big will be the femtocell market opportunity?
• How is the femtocell unit price expected to drop over the coming years?
• Who are the femtocell vendors leading the cause?
• What are the likely femtocell deployment strategies to be adopted by fixed and mobile operators?
• How are femtocell expected to be rolled-out across operators and across regions?
• What threat do competing technologies like UMA and VCC pose to the femtocell business case?
• What if ISPs decide to block femtocell traffic?
• How can femtocells help reduce operator churn?
• How will the arrival of WiMAX influence the femtocell market?