Huawei Technologies bagged the “Residential Femtocell Access Point Design and Technology Innovation Award” at the 2010 Femtocell World Summit in London.

Huawei bagged the award for its Home Media Centre product which comprises of a 3G Femtocell chipset with a media processing unit. The output power is 20mW and it can support up to 4 people simultaneously using high speed applications.

 “The residential market for femtocells is clearly the driver for attaining mass-market volumes, enabling improved coverage, data offload and new service opportunities. In order to gain traction and consumer acceptance, there need to be persuasive reasons for purchase - and also value-added features to protect against future churn. Huawei's Home Media Center includes a broad set of audiovisual capabilities such as video storage, on top of the femto module, which can help it attain a permanent role in a subscriber's home." William Webb, Director of Technology Resources, Ofcom, on behalf of the judging panel, commented.

Pablo Brito, Vice Director of EU Wireless Marketing, Huawei, said,” Huawei’s cutting-edge Femtocell and macro base station combine to manage the challenge of capacity and coverage of mobile broadband which can effectively assist operators to deploy multi-layer coverage mobile broadband and to achieve business success. ”