One more step away from landlines

This article, Unstrung - WiMax/Broadband Wireless - Verizon Eyes Femtos for 2009 - Wireless News Analysis, indicates that Verizon Wireless may introduce femtocells for home use next year. Femtocells are base stations that connect to your broadband connection and act as a mini cellular tower for your cell phone, giving you a high quality signal throughout your house. In our house, for example, our cell phones typically get one bar, sometimes two if the wind is blowing right. With a femtocell, we'd have a sufficiently strong signal to let us get rid of the landline.