Latest Small Cell News

Maravedis: Small cells will end mobile market’s obsession with sub-1GHz spectrum – http://ow.ly/evWE4Keith Day

Visiongain report: ‘Small Cells Market to Reach $233.7m in 2012′ http://prn.to/ULzpqxKeith Day

Analyst Angle: Goodbye ‘tower and power,’ hello hetnet http://goo.gl/2NoFCsmallcellhub

Surrey University to develop next-generation telecoms in a new 5G Innovation Centre: http://bit.ly/VO2H7l via @ElRegKeith Day

How the mobile industry can support 1,000x growth in broadband traffichttp://bit.ly/ONEL2fSmall Cells

Good to see Brazil’s regulator taking small cells seriously – http://bit.ly/QF60avSmall Cell Forum

Visualisations and Data

Location plays a huge part in small cell deployment. This in-depth slide deck uses case studies in New York and London as examples of indoor and outdoor placement of small cell networks to get the optimum return in connectivity and revenue. 

Radio Challenges and Opportunities for Large Scale Small Cell DeploymentsSmall Cell SIG EventCambridge, Oct 2012 Radio Challenges and Opportunities for Large Scale Small Cell Deployment

Mobile banking is on the increase, as more and more people have the ability to access their finances through smartphones. But who uses mobile banking the most? This visualisation from The Next Web, built using information taken from the World Bank’s open data, reveals that mobile banking is being driven by the poor. The poorest sections of society in the some of the poorest countries in the world are the power-users in the mobile banking industry. This leads us to ask why? Do the perceived wealthier countries have more access to traditional banking systems? Or is there a connectivity/convenience issue?

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Small Cells in Video

CTO of Norwegian startup, Cloudberry, gave this overview of his business recently, discussing how small cells networks can provide superior coverage to their clients. 

Cloudberry – Geir Ove Jenssen – Sep 2012thinksmallcell

Cisco Systems’ CTO, Matthew MacPherson, discusses next generation hotspot, seamless wi-fi roaming, and making connectivity more user-friendly, creating a better experience and offering more access.

Matthew MacPherson Interviewavrenevents