NTT DoCoMo's managing director, Yoshiyuki Yasuda, said that they plan to roll out LTE Femtocells next year manly to fill the coverage gaps in the LTE Network they will be rolling out later this year.
Which vendors can serve up the LTE femtos in time? NEC Corp., which is already one of DoCoMo's LTE vendors, has revealed plans for an LTE home base station that will be available for friendly user trials at the end of 2011, and commercial product is expected in 2012.
Other vendors that are involved in Fujitsu Ltd., Ericsson AB, and Nokia Siemens Networks, and Stoke Inc.
DoCoMo's Yasuda said that when the carrier wants to deploy LTE femtos in the 2011-2012 timeframe, it will have deployed 1,500 LTE macrocell base stations during 2010 and 2001. By 2013, it plans to cover 30% of the population with LTE. By 2014, DoCoMo plans to cover 70% of the population with 15,000 LTE base stations.
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