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By Natasha Lomas

Published: Wednesday 23 April 2008


Name

John Brooks


Location

London


Occupation

software engineer


Comment

'Spoiled for choice' is a phrase that comes to mind! I waslooking the other day at an 'internet-enabled' home electronics gadget that connected via WiFi, so the only 'extra' box was a WiFi router which many users already have!

The key issues are cost and security. In this case, the bill-of-materials cost of the whole gadget, including the WiFi inteface, was about 25 Euros!!

Security is another problem: WiFi is already beset by passwords,etc. to secure the router from intrusion. Can't see any reason why the same security problems would NOT arise with a femtocell.....



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