Small Cell Forum has announced that its 12th annual awards are now open for entries. Honoring commercial achievement and technical innovation across ten categories, the awards are open to both SCF members and non-members from all parts of the small…
Small Cell Forum’s last plenary meeting of the year was a very successful event, hosted by SCF Board Member Crown Castle in Pittsburgh. Despite chilly temperatures, the discussions soon warmed up, with a lot of progress made in defining next…
Multiple types of organizations, not just mobile operators, need to deploy and fund urban small cell networks, if the vision of a smart city is to be economically viable. A wider range of investors in dense networks will spread the…
Ground-breaking Precision Planning White Paper Highlights New Capabilities for Network Densification LONDON, UK and BELLEVUE, Wash. – October 30, 2019 Small Cell Forum (SCF) and 5G Americas today announced the publication of a white paper, Precision Planning for 5G Era…
It is a serious over-simplification to say that small cells improve capacity and coverage. They only do this optimally and cost-effectively if they are deployed in the very best locations. As 5G looms, and the number of cells increases exponentially…
New members, including Colt, Dense Air and Radysis join to strengthen Forum’s new work programs and continue their critical work in 5G-era London, UK 28 October 2019 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization making mobile infrastructure solutions available to…
Forum to continue leadership in developing 5G Open Small Cell RAN, enable new stakeholders and opportunities in evolving mobile ecosystem, and develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to revolutionise small cell network rollouts London, UK 9th October 2019 Small Cell Forum (SCF),…
Small Cell Forum members gathered in London last week for a highly successful and hard-working plenary meeting. Operators, vendors and other stakeholders from many locations round the world were able to engage in debate about key issues facing the sector,…
Small Cell Forum was engaged in driving open interfaces long before the macro network world became interested in multivendor interoperability. Now that the operators are insisting that this openness will be essential to their 5G business cases at every layer,…
New papers from SCF working groups are always a hot topic of conversation at Plenary meetings, and our next Plenary – to be held in London on September 16 and 17 – will be no exception. Among the new publications…
At the Small Cells World Summit event in London in May, edge computing, and its relationship with small cells, was a theme that emerged in many sessions. This led to Small Cell Forum adopting the following objective – ‘to support…
We’re gearing up for Small Cell Forum’s next plenary meeting, which will be held in London on September 16 and 17. Every plenary is hugely important for the Forum, enabling members from every corner of the industry to exchange views…