I do not care for femtocells, I have gigabit broadband from Charter, so internet speed is not a concern. I had a Sprint one at home for a few years and used to manage AT&T ones at work. Yes, they do what they do, but they suck to maintain. At the end of the day all they do is turn your cell phone into VOIP, wifi calling can do the same thing. The one I had with Sprint could not maintain a GPS signal where it was located, so every week or so I'd have to unravel the antenna then stick it out the window for a few minutes so it could re-acquire the GPS signal. At work, we had a seven or eight AT&T ones due to having AT&T company phones at the time and their non existent reception in the village I work in. They would frequently freeze up and stop functioning and need a power cycle, and you could not roam from one to the next if you were walking across the office and talking at the same time. Switched to Verizon and all was good.
Wifi calling is an option, but my experience is that it is terrible and I have had nothing but problems with it. Phone will not ring most of the time on wifi, calls go directly to voicemail, most of the times it takes three or four attempts to make a successful outbound call.
At the end of the day, I want to be able to have access to the phone in the case of a power outage. My cable node is not battery backed up, so power goes out and I lose cable internet and phone. Because of no internet, femtocells and wifi calling are useless. I can't speak for the femtocell but I know that the latency is too high with satellite to use wifi calling over my HugheNet connection. All or my networking equipment router, wireless access point, main smart switch, cable modem and satellite modem are on UPS battery back up.
Yes, people suck. Discreet multichannel music playback could have been the mainstream norm if the DVD-A/SACD format war played out. Instead we wound up with 128k MP3s. Woopie!
Most people would rather have convenience over reliability and quality. Those people are morons.
I treat my smartphone as an always connected PDA. This is my usage from last month. As you can see I hardly ever use it as a phone.
