National roaming is a big topic in the UK news this week, with the Government pushing operators to let customers move between networks when they drop out of coverage. It’s a controversial topic and one that both the industry and operators…
Last week a CW (Cambridge Wireless) Small Cell Sig event posed the question; “Interoperability of Small Cells and the Existing Cellular Networks – What’s the Hold-up?” With presentations from Forum members Alcatel Lucent, ip.access, JDSU and NEC, along with other…
Carole Mayhew of Avren has written a further guest blog about this month’s Avren’s Wi-Fi and Small Cells MENA Summit, from 27-28 October 2014, at the Conrad Hotel, Dubai. The Wi-Fi and Small Cells MENA Summit is nearly upon us,…
New membership options, virtualization and rural and remote use cases the focus of discussions with 44 different member companies in Milan London, UK, 24 September 2014. The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell…
In our latest blog, Small Cell Forum CEO Sue Monahon shares her thoughts on the recent three day plenary in Milan. It’s not often the worlds of technology and fashion collide but that’s what happened last week in Milan. Yes,…
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…