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| ip.access Femtocell Scores Victory at World Communication Awards ip.access is celebrating another award win. ip.access has picked up the "World Communication Award" for "Best Technology Foresight" for its Oyster 3G femtocell, a low-power home access point that dramatically improves 3G cellular coverage for voice and data services in the home. The World Communication Awards are recognised as a prestigious honour in the global communications industry. The Best Technology Foresight prize was won in the face of stiff competition from telecom technology companies such as Microsoft, Nortel and IP Wireless. Winning the World Communication Award means that ip.access has achieved an amazing quadruple in 2007. At the Global Mobile Congress in February, ip.access took home a Global Mobile award for the Oyster 3G. In September, the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 placed ip.access at 52 in its annual list of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK and last month ip.access won Light Reading's "Leading Light" Award for "Best New Product from a Private Company" again for the Oyster 3G femtocell. Analysts are predicting a huge market for femtocells. A recent report from IDATE forecast that 10 million UMTS femtocells will ship in 2010, rising to 18 million in 2011. With trials underway in Tier 1 carriers on multiple continents, the ip.access Oyster 3G is well placed to take a significant share of this market. The World Communication Awards' judging panel acknowledged ip.access as "one of the first companies to really drive the Femtocell market" and described Oyster 3G as "a striking new technology that has the potential to change the rollout cost and quality of 3G networks." Referring to ip.access' nanoGSM picocells, the judges also added that ip.access has been "consistently good at developing the wireless office solution" and believe that "3G femtocells could change how mobile operators upgrade their networks and improve indoor reception for mobile subscribers." write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |