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…
The Small Cell Forum plenary in Milan is an important event for the Forum and provides us with the opportunity to capitalize on the work we have completed so far and accelerate the progress Release Five: Rural & Remote. With…
London, UK, 7 July 2014. The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell deployment worldwide, today announced its intention to address virtualization as part of its on-going Release Program. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is…
Small cells are gaining strong traction in areas once considered too challenging to address. As the case studies paper in our Release Four content makes clear, small cells are not just economically and technically feasible in the urban context but…
Following a successful Small Cells World Summit, Small Cell Forum hosted an open-workshop on Friday morning on the Release Program and the future path of the forum. Attended by key industry analysts alongside forum members and non-members, the workshop looked…
London, UK, 12th June 2014. Real-world deployments, applications and advanced planning and analytics took centre stage at last night’s Small Cell Forum Awards 2014. The Small Cell Forum awards, which take place annually as part of the Small Cell World Summit,…
Launch of Release Four also delivers evolved urban small cell architecture and learnings from early deployments. London, UK, 10 June 2014. The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell deployment worldwide, has announced the…
Release Three was, by any standards, a wide-ranging and important document. But we knew even then that there was much more to be said about urban small cell networks. Welcome to Release Four. This is still a relatively new area…