The Small Cells World Summit opened yesterday in London with a full agenda of topics grouped into three categories: 5G in-building Solutions, Deployment Blueprints for Public and Enterprise Networks and the Evolving Ecosystem. The day ended with the Small Cell Forum (SCF) Mobile Network Awards ceremony and reception
The first session of the day at the Summit explored evolving ecosystems. The key takeaways were:
- Delivery demands are intensifying: there’s less focus on signal and more on quality of experience
- Traffic growth is declining but there will always be hot spots with extremely high density and capacity that can only be served by small cells
- Business models vary by country but sharing of small cells and ‘Enterprise pays’ are prevailing
Panel member Caroline Gabriel, SCF Content Director, gave attendees early visibility into the SCF market forecast report. Gabriel said there are challenges: operational complexity and infrastructure TCO remain the top barriers.
“But there are definite reasons to be hopeful,” she said, “this is a stabilized market with increased predictability experiencing gradual expansion, CAGR has increased from last year to 9.4 percent. Overall, indoor enterprise networks are the clear engine of deployment and innovation, and diversity of deployment and investment models remain critical to growth.”
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