Picocells and femtocells: will indoor base stations transform the telecoms industry?

28 March 2007

Who should read this report

 

  • Mobile network operators: senior executives and technologists, to understand the business case for indoor base stations, the implications for network investment strategy and the major issues that are unresolved.
  • Fixed network operators: senior executives and product managers, to assess the threat that indoor base stations pose to voice revenue and converged fixed–mobile services.
  • Cellular network vendors: senior executives and product managers, to understand the consequences of indoor base stations for the traditional cellular network architecture and to identify emerging players in the market, which could become partners or competitors.
  • Indoor base station vendors: senior executives and product managers, to strengthen the business case for indoor base stations and to understand the critical issues and questions that mobile operators will raise.
  • Financial analysts and investors: to understand the potential impact of indoor base stations on the mobile (and fixed) industry and the investment opportunities that they could create.
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