The first fruits of the relationship between Boldyn Network and EE have appeared in new small cells being deployed on the streets of London. The street-level capacity is boosting mobile network performance at Kings Cross, connecting nearly 70 million annual passengers.
The network will be expanded to cover the U.K.’s busiest stations over the next two years, including Euston, Southwark, and Westminster. The gigabit fiber-fed small cell units can bring up to 10 times faster download speeds in high demand areas, achieving download speeds of up to 300 Mbps.
The small cells will use Transport for London (TfL) street assets as part of Boldyn’s 20-year partnership with TfL, accessing fiber ducts, lighting columns and bus shelters to host the small cell units. This will reduce materials cost and disruption, causing a lower environmental impact and reduced carbon emissions.
“Small cells are essential in delivering high-capacity, superfast mobile connectivity to areas where it’s impractical to build larger sites, and by making use of TfL’s existing street infrastructure, we’re able to deploy with minimal disruption even in such a dense, urban environment,” said James Hope, Director of Mobile Radio Access Networks, EE.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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