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nearby subscribers. Anywhere users encoun-
ter trouble accessing cellular service, a fem-
tocell can usually be deployed to correct the
problem.
The benefits of working with ClearSky
were recently articulated by the CEO of
Cellular One of East Central Illinois, Cassy
Carter, who said, “ClearSky’s FaaS meets our
need to deliver high-quality voice and data
coverage, and does so at a fraction of the cost
of expanding our macro network... or pur-
chasing a Femtocell Gateway of our own.
One of our primary objectives is to reduce
churn by improving in-home coverage for
subscribers on the periphery of our macro
cellular network, and residential Femtocell
Access Points are ideal for that purpose.”
4G FOR EVERYONE
4G (or 4th generation) wireless networks
are the wireless industry’s latest technologi-
cal achievement. By transmitting data many
times faster than the 3G networks they are
replacing, 4G networks help with the data
crunch by literally creating more capacity
out of thin air. To achieve this, the entire
wireless industry had to toss away the old
ways of sending information over the air and
replaced it with a new standard called Long
Term Evolution or LTE. LTE has required
everyone from the infrastructure manufac-
turers to the companies that build the chips
inside handsets to go back to the drawing
boards. LTE has proven it can deliver the
additional capacity and speeds the industry
was hoping for but the price is high. Because
LTE is all new, it requires almost every com-
ponent of a wireless network to be changed
