The company, which is currently working with China Mobile to test a GSM-based small cell base station in Nanning, the capital of China's Guangxi region, told GigaOm that its City Site small cell allows add-on modules for video ad screens, clocks, touchscreen

The company said it will use the cash to continue pushing its small cell connectivity technology, which the company said is "currently in trials with Tier 1 mobile network and services operators," although the company declined to name the operators.

Cisco Systems, which announced earlier this month that it will acquire small cell vendor Ubiquisys, is positioning itself as the un-macrocell provider when it comes to extending coverage and capacity. Cisco doesn't hold any grudges against macrocells, the company just thinks small cells are where the future action will be.

AT&T; (NYSE:T) has updated much of its network to accommodate deployment of HSPA+ metrocells around the country, but the rollout of more advanced multi-standard metrocells is at least a year away, according to the senior executive heading up the

During the past three years, the number of femtocells shipped has outstripped the number of macro base stations. We've all seen this in the news, but it really doesn't mean very much. A macro eNodeB carries far more capacity than a femtocell. After all, a million base stations cover a billion people, while a million femtocells cover a few million people.    And all of the femtocell startups know the painful truth: So far there has been no tectonic shift toward capital spending for small cells. In short, comparing sites makes femto vendors feel good but it's essentially ...

For the full year 2012, the femtocell market totaled $425 million, up 21 percent from a year earlier. Sales of 2G, 3G and LTE femtos began ramping up late in 2012, growing 66 percent sequentially in the fourth quarter from the third quarter. Price-per-unit has

BARCELONA, Spain--AT&T; Mobility (NYSE:T) revealed a few more details on its small cell tests. In a presentation here, Gordon Mansfield, AVP of AT&T; Small Cell Solutions and chairman of the Small Cell Forum, said the company has successfully tested and

Small cell backhaul is quickly becoming a kind of low-hanging fruit in the wireless industry, with established vendors and brand new ones grabbing what they can of the nascent yet burgeoning market. The latest entrant is Tarana Wireless, which this week

Accedian Networks, a vendor of performance assurance Ethernet demarcation products, is targeting the small cell backhaul market with its NanoNID, a USB stick-size network interface device designed to provide remote troubleshooting, performance measuring and capacity planning for small cells, mobile backhaul and CPE networks. Mobile operators that have upgraded their backhaul from TDM lines to gigabit Ethernet are finding that they need performance assurance in order to make gigabit Ethernet as s

with Neville Ray, CTO of T-Mobile USA T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) expect to close their planned merger sometime in the first half of next year. The deal will combine MetroPCS' 9.3 million customers with T-Mobile's base of 33.2 million customers. In addition, if regulators approve it, the deal will also enable T-Mobile to merge MetroPCS' existing LTE network into its own planned LTE network on AWS frequencies and refarm MetroPCS' 1900 MHz CDMA spectrum for HSPA+ services. The combined co