Codgertations has been specially designed as part of a palliative care programme for industry veterans (old codgers) Martyn Warwick and Ian Scales who, with the caring assistance of the occasional guest codger, cogitate and ruminate on the week's best, worst and most amusing stories in telecoms.

This week, Ian and Martyn 'codgertate' over Femtos and the possible solution of network collaboration; Warwick vs Nokia strikes again as the handset vendor sees the light; headlines in the cloud - UK national newspaper the Telegraph provides the perfect cloud model and Soccet & See - a football story to make Matron (and Martyn!) smile.

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Codgertations has been specially designed as part of a palliative care programme for industry veterans (old codgers) Martyn Warwick and Ian Scales who, with the caring assistance of the occasional guest codger, cogitate and ruminate on the week's best, worst and most amusing stories in telecoms.

This week, Ian and Martyn 'codgertate' over free femtos in Japan; Phorm rephorms in Brazil, but is North Korea it's natural home?; Paying the piper but not calling the tune: why streaming music services struggle and Google twisting in China's wind (Matron has a remedy for that!)

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Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs France showed off some of its research goodies at a recent open day: first up, breaking the 100 gig barrier using phase (coming relatively soon) and new protocols for high density, flat networks.  Next week: the social ebook and immersive videoconferencing - don't miss it.

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If the Femto is a device who's time has come, it seems to be taking a long time getting here. What are the prospects for femto cell penetration and what new features, approaches and business models do vendors and operators have in the locker that might really make the concept fly with users?

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