We've explored how femtocells didn't quite have the year many had planned for them, in some large part thanks to the way wireless carriers priced and marketed (or didn't market) them. The technology essentially places a micro-cell tower in the home extending signal range while easing the burden on local towers by routing phone calls over your broadband connection. So far however, many carriers have only offered the technology to customers who complain about signal issues. Meanwhile, carriers like Verizon managed to strip all consumer value from the concept by having their implementation eat away at your wireless minutes. Not too surprisingly, femto vendors tell the Wall Street Journal femtocell sales will ramp up "dramatically" in 2010, even though more objective analysts say 2010 will still be slower than expected for the technology.