Another Small Cells World Summit is over for the year, but as with any successful event, the discussions and plans that were sparked by the conference will help to shape the industry long after the stands have been dismantled and…
Emerging Open RAN platforms promise to provide a standards-based way to implement virtualised, multi-vendor mobile networks. This could open up the close-knit RAN supply chain and provide operators with a wider choice of vendors, architecture and price points. In this…
The winners of the SCF Industry Awards 2023 were announced last night during the Small Cells World Summit in London. The SCF Industry Awards is the only entirely independent awards event supporting technical innovation in, and the deployment of agile,…
When small cells first became part of the mobile landscape, they were relatively unified in terms of technology and form factor, as befitted a primarily residential system. Small cell developers and deployers may feel very wistful for those days now,…
At Small Cell Forum, we spend a lot of time thinking about the diversity of our industry. Every industry and use case has different connectivity requirements, and that has driven the development of a wide variety of form factors, architectures…
SCF (Small Cell Forum) has announced the full agenda, key themes and speakers for Small Cells World Summit 2023, taking place in London on 23 – 24 May. The event, organized and run by SCF, is open to the whole…
Private cellular networks have been one of the main sources of growth for 5G in general, and small cells in particular, in the past two years. In a period where economic pressures and immature business models have slowed the progress…
Talk of what mobile networks may look like in 2030 has, until recently, been met with raised eyebrows and impatience. Typical comments – ‘2030 will be 6G, but we haven’t even deployed 5G properly yet’; ‘my job depends on monetizing…
Mobile World Congress (MWC) was almost back at full scale in Barcelona this year, after a smaller event in 2022 in the aftermath of the pandemic. About 85,000 attendees were recorded, and the Fira conference center’s eight halls were packed…
The Disaggregated RAN Transport Study (DARTs) tool has been made freely available to the industry DARTs – An analysis tool for Disaggregated RAN Transport bandwidth requirements Barcelona, Spain, 1 March 2023; SCF (Small Cell Forum) has announced the launch of…
From open architectures and mission-critical specifications, to the policy and regulation that enables shared infrastructure and new business models – SCF’s 2023 work program has long-term and sustainable deployments at the heart of its mission. The new year brings fresh…
Latest release and updates are part of SCF’s commitment to maintain FAPI as the leading small cells open standard for the industry LONDON, 19 December 2022; SCF (Small Cell Forum), the global organization supporting the evolution and adoption of low-cost,…