Sunday, February 22, 2009

Femtocell

Small base station that plugs into a home Internet connection to improve the speed and clarity of cellphone connections inside the building.

Femto is a decimal prefix that denotes one quadrillionth. The femtocell is so called because it is smaller than the picocell (which denotes a trillionth), which is used to improve indoor coverage in a larger area like a shopping mall.

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