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1. Addressing the deployment challenge

   Explore Small Cell Forum Blog May 16 2013

   The recently held fifteenth Transport Networks for Mobile Operators conference in London really embraced small cell backhaul. As vice chair, Backhaul SIG of the Small Cell Forum this made TNMO of particular interest to me so I was delighted to be asked to chair the afternoon session on the first day.

   The session was called Small Cells to Leverage the Benefits of New Backhaul Solutions — and that very positive message recurred often during the afternoon. It was also quite gratifying to note that many of the concerns — and indeed conclusions — of the recent SCF backhaul white paper and release programme ...

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2. The Small Cell Industry Awards 2013: a truly astonishing response

   Explore Small Cell Forum Blog Apr 15 2013

   Since Small Cell Forum expanded its remit just over a year ago we’ve continued to attract new members from a broader diversity of sectors and activity has ramped up within and across our working groups.

   In fact, our name change was a response to a groundswell of initiatives that were taking place even before we extended our remit. Femtocells have been joined by picocells, microcells and metrocells in businesses, government buildings, high streets, villages, and even ships and planes in (to name just a few places) Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, the US, the UK at sea and ...

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3. Join the backhaul conversation

   Explore Small Cell Forum Blog Feb 28 2013

   This week sees the publication of the SCF white paper Backhaul Technologies for Small Cells — and yes, the timing is deliberate. This year’s Mobile World Congress has already seen increasing discussion and debate around small cell backhaul and this document aims to offer as definitive an assessment as possible of the state of play in this complex and fascinating area of small cell deployment.

   Of course many of us have, for months and even years, been having conversations around the merits (or otherwise) of the technologies examined in the white paper — technologies like millimetre wave, microwave, sub-6 GHz licensed ...

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