Airvana shares vision for strategic roll-out of femtocells at London and Amsterdam conferences
Chelmsford, MA, May 21, 2008 —
Airvana, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRV), the company transforming the mobile experience, will be discussing its vision for the strategic roll-out of femtocells in both the enterprise and consumer sectors at Wireless08 at London Olympia, and at Converged Services Conference 2008 in Amsterdam, this week.Femtocells have attracted considerable interest for their potential to address technical and economic issues for converged services, and Airvana will be investigating the question of how best to monetise this potential at the two events as follows:
Wireless08: Day 2, (22 May) 11.50: Andy Richardson,VP R&D for UMTS Systems will explore different approaches to femtocells for the enterprise, and discuss the pros and cons of each for enterprise mobile communications. Dr. Richardson was a founder of 3Way Networks (now Airvana) which was formed in July 2004 with the goal of collapsing a cellular network into a single box. Some have called him the “father of the femtocell”. For more information, please visit http://www.thewirelessevent.com/Seminars/Specialist-Theatre/Femtocells.
Converged Services Congress 2008: Day 3, (22 May) 14.15: Kimon Nicolaides, UMTS product director, will be discussing how to roll out home-zones and converged services using femtocells, as part of a panel that includes ip.access, Pirelli Broadband Solutions and Nextpoint Networks. The session will assess new service possibilities, launch strategies, price issues, and how to market femtocells. Mr. Nicolaides has extensive experience in the wireless communications industry. Prior to joining Airvana, he worked within the Wireless Technology Practice of PA Consulting Group. For more information, please see http://www.informatm.com/newt/l/fmcvision/worldcongress/agenda.html
Femtocells are small, low-cost and low-power cellular access points that connect to a consumer’s existing broadband Internet service to deliver enhanced cellular radio coverage and high data speeds to mobile devices within the home.
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