Rural coverage is big news in the UK at the moment with the Government keen to encourage operators to invest in reaching those in rural and remote areas. One of the proposals reported in The Times this week was for…
Our last blog focused on one of two major Milan themes: virtualisation. But an equally demanding — and exciting — theme will be high on the agenda at that event: rural and remote small cell rollout. But Release Five will…
The Milan plenary is only weeks away. We’ve been saying this a lot in recent years, but this is certainly going to be one of the most significant Small Cell Forum meetings to date. Coming off the back of a…
Research published by UK regulator Ofcom last week has unquestionably caught the media’s attention and seen a flurry of reports focussing on a particular statistic that whilst overall levels of consumer satisfaction with mobile networks are high – only two…
London, UK, 11th August 2014. The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell deployment worldwide, has today elected Vodafone’s Alan Law as its new Chair. Alan Law, previously the Small Cell Forum’s Vice-Chair, Europe…
Small Cell Forum members receive a 10% discount on the LTE Africa. Due to the unprecedented success of the launch LTE Africa 2013 event and substantial growth in LTE deployment in Africa, the 2014 event will be co-located with Africa…
For anyone in the mobile industry, security will always be a concern and it is something that the small cell community has been taking seriously ever since the first femtocells made it out of the labs. The Small Cell Forum…
It may come as little surprise to hear that the enthusiastic response to Release Four has been accompanied by increased online interest in its predecessor. After all, Release Three and Release Four each cover important facets of the rollout of…
Small Cell Forum members receive a 10% discount on the LTE Voice Summit. With 2014 being the year to see the launch of VoLTE by many carriers, there is still much discussions around the best way to deploy voice services….
Carole Mayhew of Avren has written a guest blog to share what visitors can expect at the Wi-Fi and Small Cells MENA Summit event in Dubai. Avren’s Wi-Fi and Small Cells MENA Summit is recognised for bringing together the key…
27 companies join together to work towards greater interoperability and economies of scale to bring the small cell mass market closer London, UK, 15th July 2014. Multi-vendor Self Optimizing Networks (SON) and voice over LTE were two of the topics…
Who can resist Paris in July? Certainly not 65 engineers from 27 companies that came together for Plugfest 2014, working towards greater interoperability and economies of scale in order to bring to bring the small cell mass market closer. It…