New urgency on LTE Femtocells

Entities Mentioned

• Vodafone
• PicoChip
• NTT DOCOMO
• Femto Forum
• Agilent
• China Mobile
• Verizon
• 3GPP

1. Equipment vendors' focus on finalizing Long-Term Evolution (LTE)/Systems Architecture Evolution (SAE) standards specifications by the end of 2008 has raised concerns that femtocell standards work, which also faces a tight deadline , could suffer as a result. Both LTE/SAE and femtocells -- or, Home Node Bs in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) terminology -- have a deadline of around December this year for their specifications to be included in the next 3GPP release, Release 8. It's a crit (Read Full Article)

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