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A radio equipment provider out of Woburn, MA, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), announced today that Samsung “is leveraging” Skyworks’ solutions for the Samsung femtocell.  The Skyworks products will enter “volume production.”  The Skyworks products listed in the press release include:  1)  a transmitter for dual-band CDMA;  2) a CDMA/PCS LNA for dual-band and tri-mode with low […]

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For this post on IMS and FMC developers’ intellectual property, I collaborated with my friend, Michael Dowd, a partner at Foley, Hoag, LLP, in Boston.  I provide counsel on licensing patents and trademarks, and Michael’s practice involves developing patenting strategies and resolving inventorship issues, software licensing disputes and trade secret misappropriation claims.  As we explain below, these are intellectual […]

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On September 17, 2007, only 10 days after the Pulvermedia’s FMC conference in Chicago where Sprint discussed its future femtocell plans, Sprint formerly announced that it would immediately start offering its AIRAVE femtocell solution in Denver and Indianapolis.  Sprint included a cool marketing video about AIRAVE and femtocells on the Sprint web site. While two trials […]

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Femtocells were all the rage at PulverMedia’s FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) Conference in Chicago last week.     One carrier in the U.S., Sprint, is leading the pack.   As of today, there are no femtocell rollouts in any geography.  There are a few trials, some announced and others not.   Telefonica, as reported in WSJ last week (9/6/2007), is […]

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Femtocells are going to move fast in the coming 12 months.  Wireless carriers will push the residential gateway from zero units to millions.  On August 13, 2007, Xchange Magazine reported that In-Stat is projecting that by 2011 there will be 40 million femtocells in use and 101 million users of femtocells.   Femtocells are micro cell phone […]

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Femtocells could revolutionize cellular service in terms of diverting cell traffic off the network, providing great service in buildings and homes, increasing bandwidth speed, and, most significantly, increasing the service providers’ footprints outside their licensed areas.  Cell phone service providers, like Sprint or T-Mobile, would be able use femtocells to off-load traffic to their customer’s provided […]

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