Small Cell Forum CEO, Sue Monahan comments on the latest industry announcements on 5G. Though 5G is moving out of the labs and into operators’ planning process, confusion about the next generation of mobile networks is rising. Every week brings…
New Chair to lead work programs focused on laying the practical foundations for 5G including the deployment of hyperdense networks and digital enterprise London, 08 August 2016 – Small Cell Forum today announced the appointment of David Orloff as its new…
Small Cell Forum aims to support all members promote the adoption of small cells across the industry. A key part of this is providing exclusively to members research, market updates and insights to key aspects of the technology which may…
Ahead of our European plenary, held 13 – 15th September in Rome, CEO Sue Monahan explains why the event is not to be missed. Our September plenary is arguably THE best one to attend to both learn and influence industry direction…
London Tuesday 5 July 2016 – A multivendor, virtualized and future-proof HetNet – this is the vision that mobile operators have for their next generation deployments, and many want to move towards that ahead of 5G standards. Small Cell Forum’s…
Arun Bansal, head of Ericsson’s Radio business unit, set the tone at London’s 5G World conference today, with a keynote address entitled ‘5G moves out of the labs and into the neighborhood’. His theme was echoed time and again by…
30 June 2016: At Mobile World Congress Shanghai this week, a specially convened mobile operator round table summit meeting will focus on the path to the future HetNet mobile network and the 5G environment. The summit discussion, chaired by Small…
Release 7 provides the essential tools to deploy and manage a multi-x network to meet today’s data challenges – and lay practical foundations for 5G A working guide to deploying HetNets now, and a migration path to 5G – this…
Operators which were in the forefront of LTE roll-out have largely completed their wide area macrocell deployments and are switching their attention – and their dollars – to increasing capacity to support rising usage and new services. But throwing additional…
From 2016, there will be a sharp uptick in deployments of small cells in enterprise and urban environments, as operators see their LTE macro networks coming under pressure from data traffic that never stops multiplying. In any project to densify…
In the mobile world, discussion tends to focus on MNOs’ mainstream deployments geared to consumer data and voice. Yet many of the most interesting innovations in the RAN originate from highly specialized use cases in areas like public safety or…
It so often happens in the mobile world. The operators of Japan and South Korea pioneer a new network platform, and make it look easy. Then others follow, and discover the real complexities. It happened in urban small cells –…