Filling in the footprint will fuel wireless growth

AS THE WORLDWIDE WIRELESS market in the developed world approaches saturation – with carriers offering little compelling differentiation except for price points and minor signal quality advances, growth will have to come from somewhere other than just adding more customers. Mobile triple-play services (voice, video, and Internet) revenue opportunities are the most likely solution to this situation, but only when cell operators first solve signal coverage and capacity issues in the indoor home environment, says high-tech market research firm In-Stat. This is where Femtocells (which sounds like some sort of James Bond-style robot but are really small cellular base stations...