By Caroline Gabriel It has become a cliché that the best return on investment in 5G will come from brand new revenue streams in the enterprise and IoT. Yet early deployment are heavily focused on conventional consumer use cases, which…
By David Orloff One of the most exciting developments in the industry in the past year has been serious momentum building behind a fully open RAN. Small Cell Forum has been contributing to multivendor, interoperable networks for a decade, and…
Collaborative partnership will focus on initiatives related to network densification and adoption of OnGoTM-certified solutions London, UK & Sunnyvale, CA. – February 14th 2019 Today, Small Cell Forum and the CBRS Alliance announced an agreement to cooperate closely to advance…
By Richard Kennedy Mobile World Congress is a global show, but its location in Spain means European issues loom large. One of these, in 2019, will be the regulatory climate for densification. It is vital, for the region’s 5G prospects,…
New categories to shine light on entrants driving developments in technologies crucial to future 5G networks London, UK 31 January 2019 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization driving densification worldwide, today announced that the SCF Small Cell Awards…
By Caroline Gabriel, Rethink Technology Research The SCF Small Cell Awards stand out from the crowd of industry prizes. They have been rewarding both commercial and technical innovation and achievement for over 10 years now. In that time, they have…
Joe Madden, Mobile Experts Who needs small cells? Well, as it turns out, you do. Recently, in major US cities, urban mobile traffic exceeded the total peak capacity of the macro network. Without small cells, this would have caused major…
[dkpdf-remove][/dkpdf-remove]By Guang Yang Director, Strategy Analytics In October, China Mobile quietly launched a tender for white box indoor small cell reference design. Two Chinese startup companies, BaiCells and BravoCom, won the project. This is only a small project for China…
Cellular industry must avoid pitfalls of proprietary solutions as it seeks to define the open RAN London, UK & Santa Clara, CA – 5th December 2018 Small Cell Forum (SCF) has today called for the cellular industry to adopt open…
Operator small cell deployments set to surge with 92% annual growth in North America and 74% in South-East Asia as restrictions ease following SCF and partner efforts London, UK & Santa Clara, CA – 4th December 2018 Small Cell Forum…
[dkpdf-remove][/dkpdf-remove]By Ken Rehbehn Principal Analyst, CritComm Insights, @krehbehn Communications is an integral element of successful public safety operations. Law enforcement, firefighting and emergency medical operations all demand high quality, reliable communications for rapid and effective mission execution. Voice communications remains the…
Related content: nFAPI specifications, small cell virtualization, functional splits It remains to be seen how far 5G, in reality, will differ from 4G. That will depend who deploys it and with which use cases in mind; how regulators allocate spectrum;…