London, UK: The Small Cell Forum has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Small Cell Forum Industry Awards. Now in its seventh year, the 2015 awards include a series of new categories in recognition of an expanded and increasingly mature…
HetNets were in focus at our recent Singapore Plenary meeting, which also saw the operator group outline key areas and future technology trends May 19, LONDON, UK: Small Cell Forum has set out its future plans at its latest Plenary…
At our recent Singapore plenary, we held a ‘State of the Market’ workshop which involved ten ‘TED’ style presentations and covered recent breakthroughs in small cell technologies, deployment approaches and business models from our technology providers. Operators too shared examples…
At Mobile World Congress in 2015 we were fortunate to have Justin Waller from the Vodafone Foundation presenting on our stand. The Foundation does some incredible work in establishing communications around the world, and Justin had with him one of…
On 20th & 21st of April, Small Cells Asia took place in Singapore. Asia is home to more small cell deployments than any other region, and is seeing data growth that means it will account for almost half of the…
Sue Monahan, CEO Small Cell Forum On the 20th to the 21st of April, Small Cells Asia will be taking place in Singapore. As one of the leading partners of Small Cells Asia, the Small Cell Forum recognises the importance…
The well worn joke is that industry awards are meaningless and boring unless you win, in which case they are an important validation of your innovation and worth. The Small Cell Forum Awards are certainly not meaningless or boring. They…
Mark Grayson on how the Forum is addressing virtualization You can watch Mark Grayson’s webinar on Network Function Virtualization here. Virtualization – and in particular network functions virtualization (NFV) – is in some ways a relatively new subject: ETSI, for…
Agreement signed at 65th ETSI General Assembly to kick start virtualization collaboration London, UK, 23 March 2015. Small Cell Forum and ETSI’s NFV Industry Specification Group have signed an agreement to collaborate on a work stream that explores synergies between…
Alan Law, Small Cell Forum MWC 2015 saw big strides forward in the successful commercialization of small cells, with technologies that were new in 2014 now moving into the mainstream. As well as our own exciting news on Release Five…
Latest report for Small Cell Forum finds more than 10 million small cells deployed London UK, 18 March 2015. More than ten million small cells have now been shipped to operators around the globe, according to the latest market report…
Small Cell Forum will meet again for our Asian plenary in Singapore 22-23 April, as usual co-located with Small Cells Asia. We will be discussing critical industry issues including the impact of carrier requirement prioritization, virtualization and evolving our position…