SK Telecom expands Femtocell deployment end hot Number super million

June 9 Morning News, South Korea's largest mobile operator SK Telecom plans to expand its Femtocell deployment to help it better uninstall 3G data traffic, promote its mobile business innovation and promotion. SK Telecom deployed 1000 Femtocell hotspots at the end of 2010, mainly for unloading data traffic.　　As of March this year, access to FEMTOCLL users has been close to 26 million. According to SK Telecom deployment plan, the end of this year will be deployed 10,000 femtocell hot spots, mainly distributed in cafes, railway stations, shopping malls, office buildings, etc. generate high flow of public places.　　SK Telecom will deploy the Femtocell access point provided by Contela company, which uses Picochip chipset. The new Femtocell hotspot, named "2FA", can support 16 users at the same time, with a maximum speed of up to 42mbit/s.　　The Femtocell conforms to the interface standard of the 3GPP Iuh home base station. Deploying Femtocell is one of the main means for operators to alleviate the pressure of data flow. By deploying Femtocell, operators can reduce the impact of mobile data traffic explosion caused by the proliferation of smartphones and tablets to the operations of the Luo.　　As of May 2011, SK Telecom has more than 4 million smartphone users and is expected to achieve the target of 10 million smartphone users by the end of the year. SK Telecom said last month that it would increase its capital expenditure by 15% in 2011 to boost its 3G network capability and accelerate its evolution to LTE. (Chepeng)