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To: slacker711 who wrote (61778)	3/31/2007 12:49:09 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 197341

Thinking a bit more about femtocells... 1) The carrier gets better coverage which should translate to lower churn/increased minutes. The economics of subsidizing the device should work very well with family plans where you get mulitple people onto one femtocell. 2) The carrier also gets to offload their backhaul costs to the customer's broadband provider. 3) I would imagine that a CDMA/WCDMA femtocell would translate to better battery life. The handset should be able to transmit at a much lower power. 4) This is a developed world only solution. There just isnt enough broadband in most developing countries (India). 5) OTOH, they might work very well in Europe where indoor UMTS coverage is still a work in progress. 6) I read a quote from ABI talking about $130 pricepoints being quoted at 3GSM. That is much lower than I would have figured. I wonder what sort of chip is inside the Samsung device? Some sort of custom 1xrtt CSM from Qualcomm or somebody else? Slacker

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