The number of deployed small cells globally will reach 92...
The number of deployed small cells globally will reach 92 million by 2016 -- an eightfold increase from the 10.8 million small cells deployed today, the Small Cell Forum said Tuesday in a report. Femtocells will continue to lead other…
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small cell types in 2016 with an 86 percent share of the market. Public access models will only make up 4 percent of all units at that time, but will dominate in terms of revenue -- they will have a market value of $16.2 billion, 73 percent of the predicted $22 billion value of the entire small cell market, the Small Cell Forum said. Carriers are already providing evidence of the public access models’ traction in the marketplace. AT&T plans to deploy 40,000 units by the end of 2016; Vodafone plans to deploy tri-mode (3G, 4G and Wi-Fi) units by March, while Verizon Wireless plans to deploy units in the second half of the year, Small Cell Forum said. “Public access small cells in busy urban areas are set to be one of the defining mobile network trends in the coming years,” said Dimitris Mavrakis, the report’s author and a principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, in a Small Cell Forum news release. “While operators won’t be deploying them in the same numbers as femtocells, they are arguably their best tool for bringing massive extra capacity to their mobile networks. ... All eyes will be on the deployments taking place in the coming months in order to establish best practice for the many more that will follow over the next few years” (http://bit.ly/XzhSBi).