Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

Earlier in the year we wrote about Deutsche Telekom's Mini-Mast a.k.a. “Cell Tower To Go”.  Last year, DT set a new benchmark in susta...

I missed the last CW (Cambridge Wireless) Small Cells event 'Are small cells ready for private LTE primetime in the lead-up to 5G?'...

NTT Docomo has announced that they have developed a prototype of manhole type base station for the first time in Japan. They will be use...

Relays a.k.a. Relay Node (RN) in standards has been a part of the standards for a while but I don't hear about them often. The only time...

Before we proceed further, in case the reader is not aware of Self-Organizing Networks (SON), please refer to my old tutorial here . BT has ...

Recently I posted a summary whitepaper of 3GPP Release-13 by 5G Americas. This article from NTT Docomo technical journal complements that n...

Back in early 2015, the then EE CEO Olaf Swantee said , "We will begin exploring 'Air Masts', essentially aerial small cells po...

There were some good news that was announced in MWC 2015. Here are some interesting points from Total Telecom : Operators around the globe h...

For those who are unfamiliar about the trusted and non-trusted access, I strongly recommend reading our whitepaper on Cellular and WiFi Inte...

3GPP has an excellent Technical Report (TR) 37.803 that covers different mobility scenarios and enhancements for 3G HNB and 4G HeNB. Its an...

While going through some KDDI presentations, came across how they planned and perform Offloading. In fact, even before the deployment of LTE...

Came across this interesting presentation from the LTE World Summit 2013, one from Telus in Canada. The presentation is embedded below but h...

A simple picture showing the Small Cells support in different 3GPP releases. For more details refer to the 3G4G blog here .

In the Release-8/9 of 3GPP, X2 interface between Small Cells and between Small Cells and Macro cells was not available. In Release-10 and 11...

Under iGR's classification, there are three types of metrocells: those that operate on 3G only, 4G only and those that can operate on bo...

Alcatel-Lucent  has long claimed that femtocells and metrocells can boost wireless networks, but this time, it seems that carriers are also ...