Motorola signs up European operator for femto cell trial

Rating: promising

By Annie Turner

Motorola says it has completed end-to-end testing of its 3G femto cell solution and has persuaded “a major European operator” to run trials with it. This is good news for Motorola, whose handset division has taken a serious pasting of late.

Femto cells allow operators to provide wireless coverage within the home, whence it’s reckoned that up to 40% of mobile traffic originates. Shame I can’t tell you who the operator is, but if, as Ovum predicts, 12 million femto cells will be deployed in Western Europe in 2010, vendors and operators alike had better look slippy.

For more femto cell stuff, see here.

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