[eloy]

Funny how Vodafone manages to write an entire article about a femtocell they built without using that word a single time.

[Diapason]

This. Also calling a piece of hardware a 'network' sounds weird to me.

[wmf]

In the telco world there is a distinction between cellular base stations that require an elaborate backend network and fairly new base stations that can work standalone because the "network" is built in.

[eloy]

Yeah, it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-In-a-Box