mlong
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| It's a great idea that only cell phone companies can hose
I love the idea but leave it to the cell phone companies to charge you in this "bring your own infrastructure" model. I get great AT&T 3G service at home and I got great Verizon service as well. However, if they offered a femtocell option for say $99 that allowed me to make more calls from home I'd use it.
Right now my wife and I share 550 minutes on AT&T and I use Skype and pay $2.95 to call phones over WiFi from my iPhone. It works great but if AT&T said you get 550 anytime minutes and say 1500 (for this plan) "home" minutes I'd be thrilled. I understand they need to route the call and terminate it somewhere so I don't expect a gagillion free minutes but add a new minute bucket (we've got anytime, night and weekend, mobile to mobile, what's one more?).
I like the ability to use my home WiFi on my iPhone so this would be a sort of extension of that for making phone calls. I think wireless providers would be well served as the market shifts from home phone plus cell phones to strictly cell phone users who are abandoning their land lines. I think the femtocell idea can help them reduce the required upgrades they'll have to make to their towers or at least buy them some time.
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dcurrey
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TKJunkMail
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said by tommy13v  :I have the Sprint Airave now and it works pretty well. I also didn't have to pay for the device or monthly fee. Same here. I got Sprint to give a credit for the purchase of the device and also got a $5/mo credit for the service.
And as to having a 3G femtocell:
Actually, you don't need a 3G femtocell in the house. Or a 2G for that matter. You only need a femtocell for voice access where coverage INSIDE the house is poor. Most smartphones now provide WiFi access and that is the way to get data in the house. Afterall, the femtocell needs a broadband connection and a router anyway to work. So if you already have those(assume the router is also a wireless router), you would use WiFi anyway.
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Matt
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| said by TKJunkMail : Most smartphones now provide WiFi access and that is the way to get data in the house. Afterall, the femtocell needs a broadband connection and a router anyway to work. So if you already have those(assume the router is also a wireless router), you would use WiFi anyway. That's what I was thinking too. I'm assuming there are a ton of 3G phones out there that don't have WiFi though. |
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broccoli
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said by TKJunkMail :Actually, you don't need a 3G femtocell in the house. Or a 2G for that matter. You only need a femtocell for voice access where coverage INSIDE the house is poor. Most smartphones now provide WiFi access and that is the way to get data in the house. Afterall, the femtocell needs a broadband connection and a router anyway to work. So if you already have those(assume the router is also a wireless router), you would use WiFi anyway. In that case, why not go all the way and use Wi-Fi for voice also, à la UMA? |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by broccoli :said by TKJunkMail :Actually, you don't need a 3G femtocell in the house. Or a 2G for that matter. You only need a femtocell for voice access where coverage INSIDE the house is poor. Most smartphones now provide WiFi access and that is the way to get data in the house. Afterall, the femtocell needs a broadband connection and a router anyway to work. So if you already have those(assume the router is also a wireless router), you would use WiFi anyway. In that case, why not go all the way and use Wi-Fi for voice also, à la UMA? If Sprint &/OR Palm evetually allow VOIP app on the Palm Pre, I'll be sure to try it out. Then you wouldn't need the femtocell in the house at all.
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Matt
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said by TKJunkMail :said by broccoli :said by TKJunkMail :Actually, you don't need a 3G femtocell in the house. Or a 2G for that matter. You only need a femtocell for voice access where coverage INSIDE the house is poor. Most smartphones now provide WiFi access and that is the way to get data in the house. Afterall, the femtocell needs a broadband connection and a router anyway to work. So if you already have those(assume the router is also a wireless router), you would use WiFi anyway. In that case, why not go all the way and use Wi-Fi for voice also, à la UMA? If Sprint &/OR Palm evetually allow VOIP app on the Palm Pre, I'll be sure to try it out. Then you wouldn't need the femtocell in the house at all. I run Siphon on my iPhone and can connect to my home SIP PBX or my company's over both WiFi and 3G. |
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said by dcurrey :Got one myself. Seems to work pretty good. Took about 2.5 hours on the phone to get them to give me the device for free and waive the monthly fee. I got one shipped next day...no fees...and for free. Only took about 5 minutes on the phone. Easiest call ever and best thing I ever did.
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