Small cells have come of age. They are no longer the rebellious teenager on the fringe. They have reached a more mature stage, offering multiple complementary solutions to address insufficient coverage, capacity and reliability in indoor venues and dense outdoor environments. These are the locations where the macro infrastructure is not well-suited to provide both the performance and cost efficiency we need.
In this Sparring Partners, Simon Fletcher, CSO at the Small Cell Forum and CEO at Real Wireless, and I reflect on what we heard and talked about at the Small Cell Forum Summit, and how that fits into the evolution of small cells.
We covered a lot of ground:
- Reliability, not just capacity, crucial for indoor coverage
- Neutral hosts and shared infrastructure
- Small cells and macro cells
- Small cells and DAS
- Small cells and Wi-Fi
- The need for a new regulatory approach
