"The latest craze in the wireless world: little boxes called femtocells that boost cell-phone coverage in subscribers' homes."
Peter Svensson

"We're totally committed to this market, and to getting it right."

Paul Callahan, Vice President of Business Development, Airvana

"Airvana showcased its comprehensive solutions for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) at CTIA Wireless 2008"
Joshua Shim - TechBlogger.com

 "Motorola has turned to femtocell expert Airvana"

"Airvana showed up on a screen of companies that have enjoyed growing investor support."
By Rich Duprey

"Femtocells can provide VoIP for wireless handsets that can both improve call quality and save money."

Brad Reed, Network World

 

“Mobile data service is beginning to move into the consumer mainstream.”

Kevin J. O'Brien

"KWC worked closely with femtocell leader Airvana, Inc."
Kyocera Wireless Corp.

Article by Brian Dolan, FierceWireless

"A cellphone is meant to let you call from just about anywhere."
Duncan Graham-Rowe

"Airvana uses general purpose silicon with its own software on top. "
By Peter Judge,

“The femtocell itself is only part of what Motorola will be adopting; Airvana’s femto network gateway is just as crucial to the technology’s success”

Brad Reed

"The technology removes the need for consumers to buy mobile phones with existing short-range wireless technologies such as wi-fi and Bluetooth as femtocells use existing mobile phone technology."

Richard Wray, The Guardian

"This technology… could play a crucial role in underpinning the explosive growth of mobile broadband usage."

"Moto will debut its CDMA femtocell, designed by OEM partner Airvana."

Kevin Fitchard

"A femtocell could be the solution to your problems."
By Jane Douglas: Editor, Tech & Gadgets

"Watching YouTube on his phone via the femtocell yielded a first rate user experience."
by The Informer

"Few people realize that while they are spending hours surfing Facebook, MySpace or YouTube, that could also be making money by investing in the technology enabling such Web site."

Megha Bahree, Forbes

“Some even speculate femtocells will supplant technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX.”

Olga Kharif and Bruce Meyerson

Airvana is mentioned in an article about current acquisitions and public offerings.

4G or not 4G? Who cares, say some vendors.

Mobile operators and equipment manufacturers have been talking about the move to so-called "4G" networks and services for some time, but what has become clear is that the term 4G can mean different things to different people.

The evolution of mobile networks from 1G, 2G, 2.5G through to 3G has largely followed fairly well-defined paths set out by standards bodies, and each evolutionary step has generally adhered to certain criteria that determine whether or not a service is, say, "3G". 

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“The introduction of open standards will be critical…to meet very aggressive price points and stimulate the market. The Femto Forum provides the ideal vehicle for driving this process”

Wireless Week

 

Airvana is mentioned for its investment in femtocells.

"Having promoted the flat all-IP network architecture since its inception as a company, it must be gratifying for Airvana to see the market finally moving in its direction."

Gabriel Brown, Unstrung Insider

FierceVoIP today announced its Fierce15 list of the top VoIP companies of 2006. A widely anticipated tradition among the more than 16 FierceMarkets newsletters, the Fierce15 heralds industry leaders that have made an impact on the VoIP market. Airvana was ranked number one on the list.

The rumblings over 3G commitments and coverage reverberate louder, but that has not stopped vendors and operators looking to the next mobile step 4G.

But spectrum issues and recriminations over standards threaten to bring matters to a head before the first shots have been fired in anger.

One of the big incumbent vendors, Nortel, says operators should look no further than mobile WiMAX for 4G. It says by using such technology, operators currently at the second generation, as well as fixed operators without wireless networks, could leapfrog the big brands which are stuck with getting the most from their 3G investments.

When the industry began laying down its stakes in 3G, Chelmsford, Mass.-based Airvana put all of its bets on a single technology, CDMA 1X EV-DO. It turned out to be a smart move. Its software, chassis card and radio network controller technology are the standard in a good deal of the world’s 3G CDMA networks—publicly acknowledged by Nortel Networks as its base station technology for EV-DO and Revision A and not-so-secretly used by other Tier I vendors.

Despite early doubts about the need for 1xEV-DO Revision B, some CDMA2000 operators are gearing up to deploy the technology.

Some unnamed operators are planning to implement technology trials of Rev. B this summer, David Nowicki, vice president of product management and marketing at Airvana, told Informa Telecoms & Media.

Rev. B, which would be rolled out via a software upgrade, enables an operator to combine multiple data carriers to achieve data throughput up to 73.5Mbps in the forward link and 27Mbps in the reverse link.

"The traffic is exploding in the networks," Nowicki said, adding that steadily increasing traffic alone would require EV-DO operator to add data carriers.

Rev. B is attracting interest because "it's an easy way to get even faster data rates in certain pockets" of coverage, said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group.

The technology could also support new applications, such as mobile TV or streaming music, concurrently with a voice call.

Many have questioned the need for Rev. B, but Nowicki says cutting-edge operators are keenly interested in the technology, now that they have taken care of the logistics of upgrading their Rev. 0 networks to Rev. A.

But there are questions about the next step in CDMA's evolutionary path:  ultramobile broadband, which uses OFDM on the downlink.

Jose Rivera, director of products and development at Centennial Puerto Rico, says the futures of UMB and even Rev. B are uncertain.  He said that infrastructure vendors "have really great PowerPoint slides" about enabling advanced services, "but you must have terminals, which is how you materialize services to customers."

He added that Wi-Fi took off because of the broad availability of compatible laptop computers but it's not clear whether manufacturers are prepared to support future developments in CDMA2000 with a sufficient array of devices.

Some say the recent actions of top U.S. CDMA operators indicate that UMB will fail.  Last month, Verizon Wireless joined the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and became an individual member of 3GPP, prompting speculation that the carrier might choose LTE rather than UMB for its mobile broadband evolution.

Sprint Nextel is deploying 802.16e mobile WiMAX at 2.5GHz and is a member of the LTE-oriented Next Generation Mobile Network initiative.  Even Centennial is dabbling in other technologies, having recently acquired Islanet, a 2.5GHz WiMAX operator in Puerto Rico.

LaForge cautions against reading too much into the moves.  "All operators are going to study all the various technologies," he said, adding that even operators who are expected to take the LTE path are looking at WiMAX.

He added that operators still have the luxury of time regarding post-3G networks.  "There is nothing really driving adoption of these technologies at this point," he said.  "There is no pressing need."