The Femto Forum has been created to support and promote femtocell deployment worldwide. The Femto Forum is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation with founding  members including Airvana, ip.access, NETGEAR, picoChip, RadioFrame, Tatara and Ubiquisys. Additional members will be made public in the coming months. The Femto Forum will promote uptake of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. Initial working groups will concentrate on pre-competitive standards-focused issues including radio planning & control, device provisioning & management and device to network standardisation. A marketing task force will help promote femto solutions across the industry and will articulate positive, compelling benefits to end users. These include the enhanced coverage, quality-of-service, attractive tariffs and enhanced services which only femtocells operating in licensed spectrum can deliver. The Femto Forum will be chaired by Professor Simon Saunders, who has more than 20 years wireless industry experience and has consulted to for a range of companies including O2, NTL and BT. He was also recently appointed to Ofcom’s Spectrum Advisory Board.
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