London, UK, June 2015. Commercial success, innovation and real world deployments were recognized last night at the small cell industry event of the year. The Small Cell Forum Small Cell Industry Awards 2015, held annually as part of the Small…
The launch of Release 5.1 – our groundbreaking analysis of the coming together of small cells and virtualization – took place yesterday at the Small Cells World 2015. Since then, there have been over 1,000 downloads of release papers –…
Also announces new technology roadmap at Small Cells World Small Cells World, London, UK, 9 June 2015 – Small Cell Forum has announced the launch of Release 5.1, the first phase of its work on small cell virtualization. The Release…
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…