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This year, as at the last two, small cell and Wifi developments are going to be the big infrastructure noise at Mobile World Congress, kicking off later this month. But this time around, rather than just the well-worn small cell story, we'll be expecting to hear a lot
It’s becoming clearer than ever that WiFi and small cell mobile are set to become a significant and growing part of the mobile estate. Demand for mobile data, especially in hotspots, means that network capacity has to be increased to match. Telcos are already offloading data to WiFi and planning new deployments of both femto/pico cells and carrier-grade WiFi. But while these developments may ease the capacity problem at the air interface, they threaten to disaggregate the backhaul network.
