Femto Cell

Every now and then, new buzz occurs in technology world. Some of them are really excited, but some are simply buzz words. To see which type it is? Just Google it and find it on some amateur 3C forums. If only big companies and standard organizations are related. And it shows up only in news press, you can certainly tell the type.

Recently, Femto Cell is the hot spot of discussion in communication business. Many service providers plans to deplay it to its users' home. I am not optimistic about this technology due to several reasons:

1. Users won't pay for Internet surfing at home. Including extra equipment and 3G services. (Why shall I pay when you are using my Internet connection?)

2. The line between Internet service provider and communication provider is usually defined by govs and we all know govs are slow in responding things they do not want to accept.

3. 3G data rate is slow comparing to WiFi. It will be the bottleneck of speed. So why shall I use it?

4. If I really need to use such services with high data rate at home, why don't I just use my computer?

I did not mention some technical obstacles others have discussed on other websites and blogs.

To make femto cell success, I think those big bosses must rethink how they want Femto to happen. Such as:

1. Defining it as a replacement technology for WiFi and make laptops and netbooks supporting it.

2. Make it completely free or almost free when users are making calls at home using the Femto

 cell.

3. Add power estimation feature to Femto cell and refund the power consumed to users' phone bills.

I sincerely wish this is going to happen but do not expect it to happen. :)