Latest Small Cell News

FCC says small cells will get a band of their own (GigaOM) http://ow.ly/dLaCo > a whole industry quietly gearing-up for small cells…Keith Day

Microwave Small Cell Backhaul Equipment Market Will Reach $6.4B In 2017 http://bit.ly/RPQKLiABIResearch News

SFR to launch 3rd generation #femtocell this month – 200k+ homes in auto upgrade to 8 calls & 14.4Mbps http://ow.ly/dCYn6 @ubiquisysKeith Day

Ubiquisys charts as one of the UK’s fastest growing tech firms: http://ow.ly/dGvSMKeith Day

Why the government needs to free up more spectrum for wireless companies http://dlvr.it/2934hMGigaOM

Small Cells – A New Source of Your Mobile Communications Life? http://gag.gl/jjjo #wireless #networks #mobileMike Cromwell

NEC to outline advantages of LTE small cells at LTE Asia: http://ow.ly/dBdEIKeith Day

UK networks sag under weight of mobile data http://bit.ly/MWs0eZ via @techworldnewsKeith Day

Visualisations and Data

Mobile marketing now makes up a noticeable chunk of ecommerce spend, and is on the rise – this Monetate infographic even claims that website visits from smartphones have increased by 103% year-on-year compared to 2011. Read on for some great statistics on how smartphone users are searching, spending and socialising, and the ways in which marketers and advertisers need to change their tactics to appeal to the rising mobile market.

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Along similar lines, this CR8Inc infographic explores the habits of mobile users - what they tend to do when they’re online, how much they spend and what kind of services they use the most. It contains quite a few interesting stats for anyone thinking about what their mobile marketing plan should contain. 

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Small Cells in Video

Last month, Intel released this video, all about the smart cell that we built in collaboration with them, and how its ability to cache data intelligently at the edge of the network can help to provide unparalleled user-experience in busy locations like coffee shops or bars.

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Ericsson’s Erik Ekudden, VP and Head of Group Technology Strategies, talked to Converge! about how operators will benefit from coordinating spectrum usage across small cells in dense HetNets, allowing more users to connect to the network simultaneously through more efficient allocation of spectrum.

Big Gains in Coordinating Small Cells into HetNetsconvergedigest