Femtocell Companies Funded In 2008

The femtocell market has seen a few large investments in recent months, showing that the industry has strong market potential and there are lots of home and commercial dead zones to fix. Prominent players (e.g. Airvana, Ticker: AIRV IPO in July of 2007 for $60M, picoChip $27M, Ubiquisys ($25M) were funded in 2007, the emerging industry appears to be reasonably well capitalized for the turbulent times ahead and growth. Investors are hoping for more commercial deployments of femtocells during the next 12 months, setting the stage for mass market deployments during 2010. Here are a few companies that were successful at raising money in 2008.

October 2008 - Kineto Wireless $15.5M, which includes substantial amounts from NEC and Motorola.

September 2008 - Percello raised $12M to fund development of their femtocell chipset, bringing to $18M the total investment raised.

August 2008 - RadioFrame raised $26M to expand their picocell and femtocell range, bringing investment up to $100M since 2001.

May 2008 - Qualcomm and other venture capitalists invested an undisclosed amount in ip.access

January 2008 - Airwalk received $10M

Updated list from 3G in Home Blog
  • Airvana: IPO
  • AirWalk: $10 m
  • ip.access: strategic investment from ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm
  • Kineto: $15.5 million round including Motorola & strategic investment from NEC
  • Percello: $12 million
  • picoChip: strategic investment from Samsung
  • RadioFrame: $28 million
  • Tatara: $6.5 million
  • Vanu: $32 million
  • Ubiquisys: $25 million round including VC money and Google as a strategic investor; further strategic investment from T-Ventures.
DeadCellZones.com sits in a unique position based on our brand recognition and utility to educate the market about femtocell technology as control of in-building-coverage is suddenly in the hands of consumers and not carriers any longer. The masses are still not very familiar with the technology but its starting to trickle down to early adopters and we hope to provide a source of information for these companies where the coverage pain exists.

Best Cell Phone Service In Your Area

Best Cell Service Phone Service In Your Area

The single most common question we get asked on a regular basis is "Which carrier has the best cell phone service"?  My answer is always, "it depends where you live and work."  Cell phone coverage is a very personal issue due to the number of variables that can create coverage like terrain, the distance of the tower handsets, building material, weather and heavy users competing for the network near you.  The US carriers have been pulling the wool over our eyes for the last two decades and have conditioned consumers to look at their coverage maps from a 20,000-foot level and assume all customers are equal.  We all know that their coverage maps are useless especially if you are indoors, on the fringe of their network or roaming on another carrier's network.

So we have developed a methodology of benchmarking cell phone service to determine who has the best cell phone coverage based on who has the worst coverage.  The proper questions should be stated as who has "less bad coverage" or who has the most pins on your "inverse coverage map".   The only challenge with this methodology is it assumes that you are reaching equal amounts of customers for AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.  For better or worse AT&T and Verizon have two-thirds of the entire US mobile phone consumer market so our data is a bit skewed to them right now.
Choosing a cell phone carrier can be a little overwhelming especially if you are moving to a new area or traveling.  Understand equally your wireless needs, coverage in your neighborhood and what features each carrier offers is important before selecting coverage.  Once you find the best cell phone coverage or learn how to fix your in-building coverage using femtocell, microcell, UMA phone, VoIP, or repeater it is easy to pick the plan that fits you best.  The top four carrier service plans and coverage are compared below.

Cell Phone Coverage in Nevada

We recently launched National reviews on the top four cell phone carriers and we are starting to get a lot of feedback.  However, we are starting to focus more granularly on states as well and one state that we lack a lot of data on is Nevada and the Las Vegas and Reno surrounding areas.  We would like to ask for your help and contribute areas to our map where you experience dead zones around the state.  We would especially like to know about dead zones on I-80 out of Reno in the Northern part of the state as well as I-95, I-93, I-15, 1-60 around the Las Vegas area.
Nevada Deadcellzones.com Map
Nevada Deadcellzones.com Map
Click on the map image below for and type in your zip code, state, city or address.  Then double click on the map in the problem location and add your comments such as indoor, or outdoors and other details of problem. We have a searchable database of over 100,000+ cell phone carrier comments in major metropolitan areas around the U.S. and we are looking of your contributors in rural areas like Nevada where we have limited data. Wireless coverage is a personal issue and users want relevant feedback of places where their phone most likely will get little or no reception.  Can you hear us now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile?

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