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[tickmike]

Does anyone have/use one ?.
We get no mobile signal around our village   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/07/femtocells/

[roseway]

No, but it looks interesting, as mobile phone signals are very poor where I live (barely usable to unusable, depending on the operator).

[Berrick]

About 18 months ago we tried to get one of the vodafone products to work with no luck. At that time even their technical support was unable to help with setting it up or why I wouldn't work.

Hopefully things have changed.

[kitz]

No personal experience...  but I do know that for years Vodafone have used this technology to provide signals for inside corporate office buildings.  eg the large city type office blocks which had mirrored windows or dead spots where the normal signal couldnt reach.   AIUI they would (or used to) provide the equipment FoC if there were sufficient people in the workplace.     

[tickmike]

About 18 months ago we tried to get one of the vodafone products to work with no luck. At that time even their technical support was unable to help with setting it up or why I wouldn't work.

Hopefully things have changed.

How did you get it, did you have to buy it or was it FOC ?

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I would think they use something similar on the 'Underground' 

[kitz]

>>> I would think they use something similar on the 'Underground'

I dont think so, I'm a bit too tired now to start looking, but I wouldnt have thought that Femtocell would work in that environment. 
AIUI Femtocell relies on a internet connection and a sufficiently good internet connection to carry the data over.   It works ok in say a business environment that can afford to give some of their internet bandwidth to this technology.   Its not really designed as an all and sundry open network for more than x number of persons.

Off the top of my head I would have thought it would be easier to put in a base station hooked directly up to their network...  or relay for UG stations.

[burakkucat]

I believe that the London Underground has what is known as a 'leaky feeder' system installed to provide the mobile telephone service signals within its own environment.

[Berrick]

How did you get it, did you have to buy it or was it FOC ?

A rather worried salesman brought it in cause he was about to lose a mobile phone contract  Other than that I don't know sorry.

[tickmike]

I believe that the London Underground has what is known as a 'leaky feeder' system installed to provide the mobile telephone service signals within its own environment.

That's ringing a few bells now in my two brain cells I have left