World’s First Commercial 3G Femtocell Service launched in Singapore

­Singapore’s Starhub has launched the world’s first commercially-available 3G femtocell service. StarHub is making all local outgoing voice, video calls and SMS free for customers using the ‘Home Zone’ service, ensuring that users, who make frequent mobile calls and SMS from home, can enjoy significant cost-savings on their mobile phone bills.

This kind of plans will surely make anybody fall for femtocells. May be this is a bait for subscribers to switch operators and become addicted to these services before they are made to pay for the same maybe only some miniscule amount but which will add to huge sums overall for the operators. And when these plans and services become the norm, it may lead the operators to start reducing infrastructure costs as given in my earlier post here.