BROWSING: Small Cells

Sprint said its new Magic Box small cells could be a foot in the door for future IoT solutions in the home. The carrier's COO for technology, Günther Ottendorfer, said the internet of things is "certainly something we are thinking about" in the context...

A conversation about CBRS with Neville Meijers, VP Business Development, and Patrik Lundqvist, Director Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes...

Sprint said its new Magic Box small cells could be a foot in the door for future IoT solutions in the home. The carrier's COO for technology, Günther Ottendorfer, said the internet of things is "certainly something we are thinking about" in the context...

A conversation about CBRS with Scott Imhoff, SVP Product Marketing, Cambium The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T3bhA3W5o8 CBRS opens the use of...

Reader Forum Eighty percent of cellular connections originate indoors, but most enterprise users complain about spotty service in their offices, and they typically blame their company or the building owner rather than their wireless operator. In a recent Zinwave survey, seventy-four percent of 1000 office...

Enterprises are hearing a lot these days about the opportunity to connect everything to wireless networks, but they know that job one is making sure their people are connected. Sprint is addressing that challenge with a new wireless small cell that the company calls...

Sprint launches wireless indoor small cells Enterprises are hearing a lot these days about the opportunity to connect everything to wireless networks, but they know that job one is making sure their people are connected. Sprint is addressing that challenge with a new wireless small...

Learn how ip.access and Baicells are addressing the need for multi-carrier small cells Providing ubiquitous cellular coverage and capacity inside buildings is a big challenge the vendor community is working to solve. Big venues--think stadiums, transit hubs and other marquee locations--generally feature multi-carrier, multi-band distributed...

A conversation with Philip Marnick, Group Director, Spectrum, Ofcom, and Cristina Data, Director, Spectrum Insight and Analysis, Ofcom The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes...

Full-duplex is something of a white whale for the wireless industry; Kumu Networks has developed the tech for self-backhauling small cells Full-duplex communications would allow a node to send and receive data at the same time in the same channel. This would essentially double the...

As carriers and advocacy groups push for streamlined small cell regulatory frameworks, lawmakers in the Sunshine State say, 'Florida needs 5G' While carriers in the U.S. have steadily deployed small cells to solve for challenging coverage and capacity scenarios, the rate of deployment has long...

American Tower, which has more than 147,000 communications sites--including towers, distributed antenna systems, rooftops, colocation facilities and other infrastructure sites--in 15 countries on five continents, reported strong first quarter financial results this week, beating estimates and showing growth on key metrics. Earnings highlights include a...

A conversation about CBRS with Iyad Tarazi, CEO, Federated Wireless The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May 9. Spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz...

As the telecom industry transitions from LTE to LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced Pro, and ultimately 5G, which is still going through 3GPP's standardization process, the telecom workforce, particularly field technicians responsible for building and re-building networks, will also need to evolve. 5G promises multi-gigabit per second speeds...

As the Federal Communications Commission works to make the 3.5 GHz consumer broadband radio service (CBRS) band accessible to new users, U.S. operators and their vendors see a big opportunity associated with the deployment of LTE in unlicensed spectrums. Case in point, in February...

A conversation about spectrum management with Mark Gibson, Senior Director of Business Development, CommScope The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "Learning to share. CBRS in the 3.5 GHz band changes how we use spectrum" when it...

A conversation about CBRS with Derek Peterson, CTO, Boingo Wireless The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEOX4octbRo The regulatory framework of CBRS in...

In-building wireless investment is shifting from carriers to enterprises and building owners In a new eBook, CommScope takes a look at the ongoing transition in the in-building wireless market, which is marked by a decrease in carrier investment as enterprises and building owners take over...

The small cell and Wi-Fi deployment will be carried out by CTIL in partnership with O2. The City of London Corporation awarded a 15-year contract to Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd. for the construction of a citywide mobile network set to include small cells...

Bharti Airtel set to receive nearly $950 million for the stake in Infratel. Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel sold a 10.3% stake in its tower business Bharti Infratel for $948 million to a consortium of funds advised by KKR and the Canada...

Boca Raton, FL Whoop Wireless LLC, an OEM of in-building mobile reception systems, is announcing the launch of the Whoop 10-4 Small Cell Interface Head–end (10-4 SCI) which provides an affordable yet high quality solution for mid-sized buildings. The 10-4 SCI supports mobile phone signal...

The new enterprise offering combines small cells with mobile edge computing apps Japan’s NEC Corporation announced that Dutch telco Vodafone Netherlands has launched a new offering for the enterprise segment combining NEC's Small Cells with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) applications. The new offering, dubbed SignaalPlus Enterprise...

New Wireless Infrastructure Association report details the key role street lights, utility poles and traffic signals in helping speed small cell initiatives. Increasingly dense networks better support end-user data demand, particularly in high-traffic areas. To provide this type of pinpoint capacity and coverage, operators often...

Network densification, particularly with increasing carrier deployments of small cells, enables pinpoint coverage and capacity for data-hungry subscribers. But, as more and more access points go into the field, the more difficult it becomes to manage and optimize a network. This is where virtualization...