Ubiquisys is working with a team from MIT's Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) to look at how operators can generate new type of business revenues from broadband wireless services based on femtocells.
The deployment of new types of lower cost basestations, or femtocells, is seen as important for operartors as they roll-out broadband wireless services which will generate new revenues.
The aim of the project is to look at how femtocell technology will enable existing internet applications and services.
As a result US-based research organistaion MIT is to establish a femtocell application development centre at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
"We have successfully answered the technical femtocell questions and mobile operators are now looking to the potential for additional revenue generating services," said Chris Gilbert, CEO of Swindon-based Ubiquisys.
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The MIT E-Lab is a course in which teams of graduate management, engineering and science student's work for one semester on a problem critical to the success of a new technology venture.
Hundreds of millions of people across the world have a both a mobile phone and access to a broadband connection at home or at work. But these two liberating technologies have grown up separately.
Ubiquisys specialises in the development of femtocell wireless basestation technology. This is a miniature 3G mobile access point that plugs into a user's broadband connection.