Femtocell technology combined to a condominium cabled infrastructure

Fixed-mobile convergence has the potentiality to break down some of the physical barriers that now prevent telecom service providers from reaching all of their potential customers with all types of services. The breakthrough combination of wireline backhaul with wireless technology seems to represent a concrete quantum leap in terms of spectrum utilization, capacity and quality of service as well as it allows costs reduction and service differentiation. In the present paper an innovative approach to access the end user, relying on infrastructural integration of femtocellular technology with existing cabled networks, like MATV/SMATV plants, is proposed. The possible future deployment of new mobile networks, like LTE, in the digital dividend spectrum and in the GSM frequency band resulting from the re-farming process, makes this original broadband wireless access (BWA) approach an interesting solution to improve indoor radio coverage making possible, at the same time, a reduction of costs for both operators and users.