SCF develops the technical and commercial enablers to accelerate the adoption of agile, cost-effective, scalable, cellular infrastructure to drive wide-scale densification. Broad roll-out of flexible, scalable and sustainable infrastructure will make high-grade mobile connectivity accessible and affordable for industries and enterprises and for rural and urban communities. That, in turn, will drive new business opportunities for a widening ecosystem of service providers. Those service providers are central to our work program, alongside their enterprise customers establishing the requirements that drive the activities and outputs of our technical groups.

To date SCF has driven the standardization of key elements of mobile infrastructure technology including Iuh, FAPI, nFAPI, SON, services APIs, TR-069 evolution and the enhancement of the X2 interface. These specifications enable an open, multi-vendor platform and lower barriers to densification for all stakeholders.

For more than a decade SCF specifications, publications and campaigns have helped establish business cases and market drivers for small cells, clarified market needs and addressed barriers to deployment of infrastructure and business models to enable the sustainable digital transformation of industry, enterprises and communities.