Access to broadband connectivity is critical for cities, towns, enabling their communities to work, learn, and engage in society. Small cells can provide and improve broadband access and coverage. However, regulatory processes in many municipalities remain lengthy, complex, and costly….
A blog written by the SCF Regulatory and Policy Working Group on recent CEPT activities SCF started attending the CEPT PT1 and WG FM meetings under its recognized observer status back in 2022. CEPT is the European Conference of Postal…
Following the release of SCF’s Market forecast report 2024, we held a webinar with the report’s author Caroline Gabriel, analyst and SCF Content Director and moderated by Simon Fletcher, SCF Chief Strategy Officer. This session took a deep dive into…
London, UK, 3 July, 2024; SCF, the global trade organization committed to fostering sustainable digital transformation across industries, enterprises, and communities, has released its Market forecast report 2024, shedding light on the current state of mobile infrastructure deployment and the…
Thank you to everyone who joined our mmWave webinar on Tuesday 25 June 2024, which delved into the technology aspects of our recently published whitepaper. The webinar was joined by Simon Fletcher, Vicky Messer, from Picocom, and the mmWave Whitepaper…
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…