For those of you who have been waiting for AT&T to announce the public availability of their femtocell appliance in order to fix the shitty AT&T network coverage this will interest you. Vodafone Access Gateway (femtocell) launched in UK <abiresearch.com/Blog/Wireless_Blog/635> Its July 1st and Vodafone have officially launched their access gateway product in the UK. For those who are wondering what this is - its a femtocell with a curious title. Although Vodafone had made a press announcement at the Femto World Summit last week, its nice to see how they are packaging and presenting it to customers here in the UK. Some initial observations 1. Apart from buying it directly for ?160, it is being bundled with var... Read More <abiresearch.com/Blog/Wireless_Blog/635> I'm assuming it will be offered on similar commercial terms as I think if AT&T charge a monthly fee people will riot - was hoping for a cheaper price than $US220 though. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090701/073b6f51/attachment.htm
Gordon Henderson
2009-Jul-01 18:31 UTC
[asterisk-users] UK Vodafone femtocells now available
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Dean Collins wrote:> For those of you who have been waiting for AT&T to announce the public > availability of their femtocell appliance in order to fix the shitty > AT&T network coverage this will interest you.It's getting a lot of press and a bit of a mixed reaction over here. Some are complaining that they shouldn't have to pay to extend the networks coverage, others wanting to jailbreak their iPhones to take advantage of poor O2 coverage where they are... (but moving to voda is a backward step IMO ;-) Gordon