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Ivan Seidenberg likes femtocells

Michelle Donegan, Contributing Editor, Light Reading

January 27, 2009

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1:50 PM -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg is all excited about femtocells. (See Verizon Intros Femtocell.)

He said the little home base stations are the "secret weapon of the century," on the company's fourth-quarter results Webcast today.

It's no secret. Those little base stations will save him a bundle on opex and capex. Instead of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on new macro base station sites to improve cellular coverage, Seidenberg can get his customers to stump up $250 for a femtocell to boost coverage in their homes themselves.

— Michelle Donegan, European Editor, Unstrung

About the Author

Michelle Donegan

Contributing Editor, Light Reading

Michelle Donegan is an independent technology writer who has covered the communications industry on both sides of the Pond for the past twenty years.

Her career began in Chicago in 1993 when Telephony magazine launched an international title, aptly named Global Telephony. Since then, she has upped sticks (as they say) to the UK and has written for various publications, including Communications Week International, Total Telecom, Light Reading, Telecom Titans and more.

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