Pioneering open access model empowers a multi-operator approach for outdoor small cells. An approach championed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (then the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) makes its debut in Croydon. In a first…
Thank you to everyone who joined our FAPI webinar on Wednesday 29 May 2024, which explored the latest updates to the FAPI suite of specifications. The webinar was joined by Simon Fletcher, Andrei Radulescu, from Qualcomm, and the FAPI Work…
Small Cells World Summit 2024 took place in a new venue in the heart of London’s Westminster, a neighborhood that boasts one of Europe’s largest clusters of outdoor small cells, deployed by a mixture of mobile operators and neutral hosts….
SCF, the global trade organization committed to driving sustainable digital transformation across industries, enterprises, and communities, has released its latest paper – 5G mmWave Small Cells, which aims to help policy makers, regulators and service providers understand the current and…
Small Cells World Summit (SCWS), a conference run by SCF, will take place on 22-23 April in London, and will focus on ‘getting real about the future’, tackling topics including evolving service models, the implications of converged infrastructure, the technical…
About the deployment Dense Air is pioneering the use of Split 6 fronthaul and smart antenna technology for the scaled deployment of small cell clusters to support or infill existing holes in carrier networks, or to provide densified, dedicated private…
Another Mobile World Congress is over, and 2024’s Barcelona jamboree was almost up to pre-pandemic strength, topping 100,000 attendees according to organizers GSMA. MWC is always full of hype, gimmicks, and demoes so blue-sky that they will rarely be seen…
Release 11 is a suite of documents aimed at helping policy makers and service providers unlock the benefits of new deployment models and shared infrastructure SCF, the global trade organization committed to fostering sustainable digital transformation across industries, enterprises, and…
Bonn, Germany and London, UK February 13, 2024 – The O-RAN ALLIANCE (O-RAN) and SCF (Small Cell Forum) have announced the expansion of their collaboration through a comprehensive Cooperation Agreement. This agreement extends the longstanding partnership between the two global…
The SCF DARTs – Disaggregated RAN Transport study – tool is an industry first, a means of precisely identifying the optimal split for RAN options. It is also a great example of SCF’s practical stance, where we focus on identifying…
This week SCF is in Kuala Lumpur at the TowerXchange Asia meetup, where Richard Kennedy, SCF COO, is running a workshop on regulation. Why is this important? All too often we tend to look at technology and regulation in isolation,…
As a global organization, SCF has a front row seat to the opportunities and challenges emerging across regions and nations, making us uniquely positioned to identify trends and common themes. When it comes to neutral hosts and private network service…