Tellabs Webinar: There's a strong consensus among service providers that small cells will be an integral part of their 3G, HSPA and LTEⁱ deployments in the future. However, the timing of deployments, use cases, and the range of potential architectures cause some uncertainty in the best path forward for each service provider.

Ravi Chachra says Aricent is seeing increasing demand for dual mode, 3G/LTEⁱ femtocell solutions. The software is ready, but the push is yet to come from the operators, he adds.

London, UK – 28th June 2012 – The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell deployment worldwide, today announced the winners of the Small Cell Forum Industry Awards 2012. The awards recognise outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the small cell industry.

June 26th, 2012 – Informa Telecoms & Media today issued its latest quarterly small cell market status report which highlights growing operator interest in public access small cells as well as progress in the femtocell market.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 07, 2012 --Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD), the industry leader in technology for small cell base stations, today announced the industry's first product for enterprise and public access Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) small cells.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Apr 30, 2012 - Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), the industry leader in technology for small cell base stations, today announced that the company's Transcede(R) wireless baseband processors are in the first long-term evolution (LTE) femtocell from SK Telesys.

3GPP LTE Evolved Packet System (and what it has to do with Femtocells)
By A. Maeder, G. Punz, S. Schmid - NEC Laboratories Europe, andreas.maeder@neclab.eu

Outline

This talk gives an overview of SON activities within 3GPPⁱ. It justifies the needs of automatic networking operations in the increasingly heterogeneous wireless technology environment, and highlights latest SON functionalities of LTEⁱ/LTE-A.

LONDON, UK - 28 March, 2012. Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE intelligent cells, has been ranked at the top of the latest Indoor Small Cell Vendor Matrix, released by ABI Research. The matrix compares small cell access point vendors and ranks them based on a comprehensive range of criteria linked to Innovation and Implementation.

Dallas, TX. – March 12, 2012 —Ubee Interactive, a leader in global broadband technology, today announces the acquisition of substantially all assets of AirWalk CommunicationsTM Inc., the leader in small cell solutions by UbeeAirWalk, a newly formed Ubee subsidiary.

The expansion and evolution of cellular networks over the past decades has been astounding. Networks initially designed for voice traffic have grown to accommodate increasingly high data-traffic loads. This growth has long relied on a network of macro cells to provide a good balance of wireless coverage and
capacity.

Andy Germano of the Small Cell Forum talks with RCR Wireless News about how integrating femtocells and Wi-Fi can offer mobile customers a seamless, secure wireless experience on an intelligent network.

Barcelona, Spain – February 28, 2012 – Today at Mobile World Congress, TEKTELIC Communications, a leading provider of high quality and high efficiency cellular radio solutions and 4G micro base stations announced the availability of their smallest fully integrated micro eNodeB.  In conjunction with Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.