T-Mobile Venture Fund is an investor in Ubiquisys, a U.K. femtocell startup. T-Mobile is trialing the vendor’s 3G home base station in Europe, says Unstrung.
Ubiquisys also has had an investment by Google.
Ubiquisys is attracting well known VC firms Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, and Advent Ventures , and now it has the financial support of a major international carrier.
T-Mobile is trialing the Ubiquisys 3G ZoneGate femtocell in Europe but did not provide any more specific details. Its press release states only that the ZoneGate femto is used by Ubiquisys partners, such as Nokia Siemens Networks and NEC.
The standalone ZoneGate femtocell and the Netgear Femto Gateway use 3G femtocell technology from Ubiquisys. The single-box solution includes an integrated ADSL2+ modem, router, 10/100 wired LAN switch, 802.11g wireless access point, Voice over-IP (VoIP), SPI double firewall.
The technology is in trials in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. T-Mobile will demonstrate the ZoneGate femtocell in the T-Mobile Pavilion at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, Germany, this week.
With respect to the Ubiquisys FemtoCell product, what frequencies does it really, truly transmit on? Of course they create the perception that it is on the 3G frequencies e.g. 800/900 and 1800/1900. However, nothing really specifically identifies that it is using the 3G technology. Further, it highlights the UMA requirements. Is this thing just a Bluetooth access point posing as a small 3G base station (in that it extends the 3G netork) or does it really transmit on 3G carrier licensed frequencies?
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