As some operators start to put flesh on their plans for early-stage 5G deployments, midband spectrum is emerging as a key enabler, and one which will place small cell technologies deep in the heart of 5G. And, in this context,…
Release 10 is the latest set of technical and commercial documents published by SCF, which focuses on key enablers for densification. This builds on last autumn’s Release 9, which offered foundations for building a dense HetNet in 4G and 5G….
SCF Chief Strategy Officer Julius Robson shares some insights into the 2018 work program for SCF – and details how you can have your say in the work that is defining the future of our industry. Register for our all…
Small Cell Forum held the last event of a packed 2017 schedule in December in San Jose, California. Chair David Orloff reflects on discussions held on the convergence of mobile communications with IT and software. The December Small Cell Forum…
The last major event on the small cell industry’s calendar was the SCWS Americas conference, which moved to a new location this year – San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley. The move highlighted how the cellular, IT and…
One of the few aspects of 5G on which there is broad agreement is that it will be deployed completely differently from previous mobile networks. It will need to be far denser, in order to support the broad range of…
New non-residential small cell deployments set to grow at compound annual rate of 36% from 2015 to 2025, with Enterprise deployments set to 17x over same period San Jose, CA – 5th December 2017 Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization…
Ahead of our North America Plenary next week, CEO Sue Monahan shares insight into the discussions and debates members can expect. Registration is essential. Only a few days until the last Small Cell Forum gathering of the year, our North…
Ahead of SCWS Americas next month in San Jose, the conference’s Head of Content Georgie Mailer-Howat shares key highlights of the event which covers the most pressing issues and challenges in wireless connectivity. If Sprint’s deployments of Magic Box are…
From 12-13 December the Small Cell Forum will be participating in the Tower Xchange/ Future Network Asia Meetup at the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore – and we would like to invite our members to join us. Small cell…
Members from TIA will be joining our North America plenary in San Jose next month for the launch of TIA’s Smart Buildings Working Group. This is a joint project which sees SCF and TIA partner to develop definitions, classifications, specifications,…
Latin America’s MNOs call for new partnerships to make densification real Operator CxOs took to the stage at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 Latin America event in Bogota, Colombia, with some clear messages about deploying next generation networks. The overall theme…