Wednesday, January 30, 2008

How Femtocell Companies Rank in Web

Femtocell is a hot emerging technology for mobile communications. Curious to see how the Femtocell technology and product companies are doing in the Internet.


I select the equipment and semiconductor companies from Femto Forum and to rank them based on following three aspects:


Web Push - Effort to marketing femtocell solutions on its web site


Media Attention - how much attension does a company get in Femtocell on the Internet


Influence - The structural relationship between a company and other players in the industry.


The result is shown in the following table.



In the "web site push" category, femtocell focused small companies and start-ups are doing much better job. Clearly these companies are betting femtocell market and market themselves as leaders in this market and eventually find exit by partnering or M&A with tier 1 players.

Large tier 1 companies get much more media attention than small companies due to their leading position in wireless market.

In the influence category, some femtocell companies are doing very well.

In summary, Ubiquisys, ip.access, picochip, Airvana, Sonus and CCPU are small and important femtocell players to watch, weather they are providing equipments, chips or software.

Cisco, Motorola, Huawei and Ericsson are tier 1 players that may play important role in femtocell market.

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