i have been looking for one of these for about two years now... its a good idea but the only other models of this ive found online were like $300 bucks so lets see if this is one of motorola's last stand

And I hope this one isn't geographically restricted.

wouln't this be potentially harmful? I'm not sure if this is confirmed but isn't the electro magnetic radiation dangerous? Its bad enough we all carry cellphones but to put a tower in our living rooms too... I don't know, sounds like a very convenient product but it looks like cancer is not going to leave us alone!

@giyad: You really worried about a urban legend- the amount of radiation that passes though your body everyday from the sun is more then some little baby cell in the living room. Of course i'm not saying that to keep on your lap either.

Femtocell? So many lesbo prison jokes swimming in my head right now.

Well t-mobile's hotspot @ home is kind of gay.
To tell you the truth not all the t-mobile phones are compatible with it and you need to use wifi. I'd rather have my wifi connection for something more useful like internet browsing that having a chunk of my bandwidth being sucked up because i want a voip type service on my phone.
I like these services more because they pump out the actual frequency of your cellphone provider instead of internet signals.
Most of us already have wifi routers and where cant you go and not find wifi. so im not too fond even though you can go wherever and get free calls on t-mobile's service but idk not that much of a fan.
Maybe because my phone isnt compatible yet =/ lolx.

I can certainly see this being a big hit in business/enterprise application. At home, though, there are plenty of viable alternatives.

@SneakerFiend: Femtocell is better than Hotspot because it works will most (says "works with all", but until you test it's not true) cell phones and you don't have to do anything special to enable Femtocell calling.

They have pretty major handoff problems (from Femtocell to regular cell like if you start a call in your house and then drive somewhere in your car), which you would have thought they would have fixed since they've been out in Europe for quite a while, but it seems that they haven't, but other than that, they work pretty well.

@drewheyman: And, of course, keeps you firmly on the service providers revenue-generating frequencies, rather than on the communistic revenue-avoidance Wi-Fi stuff.

I finally would ditch my land line if I could use one of these with Verizon. Here in the hinterland, Verizon has the strongest signal, but still not strong enough to use inside my house most of the time. If I could have my own household cell routed through my broadband connection...perfect.

Did some more reading on femtocells. AirWalk Wireless Network Solutions has also just introduced something along these lines, and it does do EV-DO.

It looks like they (cell companies) are wanting to charge a monthly fee for this sort of thing?!? Major non-selling point for me, then. Doesn't surprise me, though, that they want to charge you for doing them a favor, taking traffic off the normal cell tower network. >:| Kind of like ATM fees for the tellers the bank isn't having to pay.

well, since my cell phone seems to work everywhere in my county except for the town i live in, this would kick ass.
what would be really cool is if they give you EV-DO, and don't charge you power vision usage if you go on EV-DO in your own picocell or femtocell, whatever they're calling it. especially since my phone only lets me make ringtones out of internet downloads, not MP3s i put on it with a cable.