ICT4D: Femtocells network versus wi-fi network for mobile communication

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a major role in infrastructure development in African countries. Wi-Fi network has become one of the widely accepted technologies used for the Internet at various levels of environment such as indoor/outdoor. Nevertheless, the introduction of femtocell as a new technology for development plays other vital roles for Internet connectivity for mobile cellular and laptop, particularly at the indoor coverage. These two technologies are both beneficial to the subscriber for quality performance of the service of the mobile provider. Femtocells attracted attention in for the telecommunication industry rather than the traditional wireless network. The interesting part is femtocell has the additional service such as a security feature. In this paper, the comparative analysis of both technologies will be presented based on VoIP test results. In this paper we are to get an understanding of the deployment of Femtocell over the deployment of Wi-Fi networks which will play a role in developmental programs. We provide recommendations on benefits of using femtocells in the context of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development).