Sprint Nextel will use Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio Metro Cells to improve...
Sprint Nextel will use Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio Metro Cells to improve 4G LTE broadband capacity in high-traffic areas. The mini base stations, which can be used indoors or outdoors, are often used to enhance capacity or fill in coverage gaps created…
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by tall buildings in urban areas. Sprint said it will initially use the stations, also known as small cells, at transit hubs and other indoor locations. The cells will complement Sprint’s Network Vision plan by providing a lower-cost way of expanding capacity in high-traffic areas, the carrier said. “With Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio Metro Cells we will be able to increase our coverage and capacity where it’s needed,” Sprint said Monday in a news release (http://xrl.us/bnjnbh). The Network Vision plan is expected to be complete by the end of 2013 (CD July 17 p13).