The modern mobile network has become such a complex beast that no single organization can address all its challenges. Operators are grappling with the challenges of deploying huge numbers of base stations, as they densify their current networks and look…
Small Cell Forum and Indian Telecoms Ecosystem to Gather Requirements to Accelerate Network Densification in the Region London, UK & Mumbai, India 3 October 2017 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization driving universal cellular coverage, and Reliance Jio, the…
Small Cell Forum will be represented at 5G Asia by Aya Mukaikubo of SoftBank. Ahead of the event, CEO Sue Monahan discusses the steps being taken to progress towards 5G.
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London, UK & Arlington, Va. – 13th September 2017 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization driving universal cellular coverage, and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech connectivity networks, today…
Densification is the most important trend in mobile network deployment, and few markets are densifying with such dramatic impact as India. With the prospect of subscriber numbers hitting one billion before the end of the decade, operators have no choice…
The timing couldn’t be better for Small Cell Forum to hold its first major event in India. The global spotlight is on this huge market, as it gears up for its first 5G auctions, and as dense mobile networks take…
India is now the second largest smartphone market in the world, overtaking the US, and to support that growth, its operators are turning their network strategies and business models inside-out, and focusing heavily on densification. Yet on the industry events…
The success of the mobile industry has been built on global standards, and these will be even more vital to the economics of 5G because of the huge numbers of elements involved. Many millions of small cells, and billions of…
Densification may be an unwieldy and overused word, but it lies at the heart of many mobile operators’ plans to upgrade their networks and services over the next few years. It’s therefore the topic at the heart of Small Cell…
Ahead of our summer meeting in Atlanta later this month, Chair David Orloff explains why this is a plenary with a difference. It’s only a few weeks until our summer plenary meeting in Atlanta on 26-27 July, and I’m particularly…
The issues of small cell siting are grabbing attention all the way up to the White House. President Donald Trump received a briefing from mobile operator CEOs last week, and was told that the complexities of getting site approval could…
SCF’s fifth LTE Plugfest event focused on private evolved packet cores – a key enabling technology for enterprise small cell use cases London, 3 July 2017 Small Cell Forum (SCF) has successfully completed its fifth LTE Plugfest, hosted by ITRI,…