Femtocells and Picocells: New Markets and Business Models for In-building Cellular

• How large is the future market for femtocells?
• How much of a threat do femtocells offer to wider FMC?
• What are the major trends in in-building cellular?
• Who are the major players in in-building cellular and what are the successful strategies?
• What are the major operator strategies for in-building cellular?
• Which are the largest end-user markets?
• Will femtocells be sold as a stand-alone proposition or as a bundled offering?

• Global Picocell Revenues by region
• Global Picocell Deployments by region
• Global Femtocell Revenues by region
• Global Femtocell Units Shipped by region
• In-Building Cellular End-User markets

1. Introduction

1.1 Executive Summary

1.2 Types Of Inbuilding Wireless Solutions

1.3 Market For Indoor Network Infrastructure

1.4 Competing Technologies

1.5 Market Size

2. Technology Overview

2.1 In-Building Wireless Solutions (IBwS)

2.2 The Need For Picocells/Femtocells

2.3 Installation

2.4 Picocell Versus VoWLAN Solutions

2.4.1 Enterprise VoWLAN

2.4.2 The Proliferation Of WiFi

2.4.3 WiMAX

2.4.4 Unlicensed Spectrum

2.4.5 Home Offerings

2.5 IBwS Network Planning

2.5.1 Designing a picocell wireless network

2.5.2. RF Interference In Transport

2.5.3 High-gain Antennas

2.5.4 RF Interference

2.5.5 Redundancy

2.5.6 Frequency Planning

2.5.7 Transmission systems

2.5.6.1 GSM

2.5.6.2 CDMA 1xRTT

2.5.6.3 CDMA EV-DO

2.5.6.4 UMTS/HSDPA

2.5.8 Coverage and Interference Challenges

2.5.9 Backhaul connectivity

2.5.10 Output power and range

2.5.11 Deployment Scenarios

2.6 Mobile Data Evolution

2.6.1 HSDPA/HSUPA

2.7 Base Station Trends

2.8 Radio Network Controller (RNC)

2.9 Active, Passive and Hybrid DAS

2.9.1 Passive Systems

2.9.2 Active Systems

2.9.3 Hybrid Systems

2.10 Cost Issues

2.11 UMA

2.12 Early Movers On FMS

2.13 Manageability

2.14 Quality Of Service

2.14.1 QoS On Wi-Fi

2.15 Hard & Soft Handover

2.15.1 Macro to Micro-Network Handover

2.16 Handset Considerations

3. Market Overview

3.1 Evolution Of In-Building Cellular

3.2 Market Trends

3.2.1 Growth Of WLAN

3.2.2 Spectrum Auctions Drive Demand For In- Building Cellular

3.2.3 Growth of 3G Data Services

3.2.4 Multi-Carrier Or Single Carrier Support

3.2.5 Network optimization

3.3 Cost Issues

3.4 Fixed Mobile Convergence

3.4.1 The FMC Value Chain

3.4.2 Fixed Mobile Substitution

3.4.3 FMC device evolution

3.5 In-Building Voice Usage

3.6 Data Usage

3.7 Customer Control

3.8 Capex Considerations

3.9 End-User Applications

3.9.1 In-Transport

3.9.2 In-Air Installation

3.9.3 Hospitality

3.9.4 Office

3.9.5 Home

3.10 Femtocell Integration

3.10.1 Multi-Play

3.10.2 Health Fears

3.11 Private Mobile Networks

3.11.1 Spectrum Issues For Private Networks

4. In-Building Cellular Vendors

4.1 Vendor Strategies

4.2 Vendor Profiles

4.2.1 Ericsson

4.2.2 ip.access

4.2.3 Motorola

4.2.4 Teleware

4.2.5 Radioframe

4.2.6 LGC

4.2.7 PicoChip

4.2.8 Ubiquisys

5. In-Building Cellular Operators

5.1 Operator Strategies

5.2 Operator Profiles

5.2.1 DoCoMo

5.2.2 T-Mobil

5.2.3 O2

5.2.4 Private Mobile Network

5.2.5 Spring Mobile

5.2.6 TeliaSonera

6. Market Forecasts

6.1 Vendor Market Shares

6.2 Global Revenue Forecasts

6.3 Global Subscriber Forecasts

6.4 Regional Breakdown

*Content correct at time of printing