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HELSINKI (Reuters) – A profession startup hardback by Google undraped on weekday the world's prototypal individualized humble send for international travelers, sanctioning them to cut roaming fees and make ambulatory calls same in a home country.

Ubiquisys said the timing of devices achievement consumers depended on telecoms operators and it was in talks with several operators.

The medium meshwork humble station, which is plugged into the travelers computer, is slightly large than a smartphone, and needs an cyberspace connection.

Depending on topical regulations, travelers would need to place the sound on humble send or it entireness within a room.

The newborn device, titled attocell, is fashioned for ingest with Apple's iPhone, but it entireness also with Google's Android phones, RIM's Blackberry and Nokia's smartphones.

Ubiquisys is digit of the top firms in the newborn mart for femtocells -- small, low-power interior humble send for 3G ambulatory sound networks -- sanctioning operators who struggle with meshwork power to meliorate interior coverage at a such lower cost.

Many business analysts prognosticate the mart to surge in the next some years, helped by dropping prices, and to top $1 billion in digit to three years.

In constituent to Ubiquisys, field profession firms such as Cisco, Samsung Electronics, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei make femtocells.

The devices are plugged into a customer's broadband cyberspace connection, same a wireless cyberspace humble station, and earmark users to make calls or ingest accumulation services with their regular 3G ambulatory phones.

In constituent to Google Ubiquisys owners include Accel Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, T-Mobile's stake fund, SerComm Corp. and UMC Capital Corporation.

(Editing by Anshuman Daga)

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