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Changing the shape of

future networks

About the Small Cell Forum

© Small Cell Forum Ltd 2015

Why do small cells matter?

More customers. More data revenues.

More usage. Less churn.

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3,674,714,600and counting

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EVERY OPERATOR AND MOBILE DEVICE USER WANTS:

SMALL CELLS

Coverage

Capacity

Reliability

Fill coverage gaps

Boost capacity

Ensure a connection

How do small cells help?


Small cells began life as home signal boosters. Operators soon realized that they could do much more in many more places

Where can they do this?


Indoor small cells for

home or small office

applications

Coverage driven premises-based

small cells for deployment beyond

the home – e.g., government

buildings, hotels, hospitals as well

as SMEs or corporate campuses

Small cells that offer capacity for dense environments, which

may be indoor (e.g., shopping malls, convention centers or

transport hubs) or outdoor (e.g., parks or city centers)

Indoor & outdoor small cells connecting the

unconnected – delivering services to users in rural

and remote environments (e.g., remote

communities, disaster recovery, special events,

military applications, public safety, transportation)

RESIDENTIAL URBAN

ENTERPRISE RURAL & REMOTE

Small cells indoor, outdoor… everywhere


N America 1,011,105

L America 19,965

Europe 418,695

China 186,750

APAC 356,760

MEA 282,325

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Small Cell Forum helps them to answer these questions

Regulation

Standardization

Security

Interoperability

Deployment

Interference management

Business case

Market drivers

OPERATORS SEE THE POTENTIAL OF SMALL CELLS. BUT THEY ALSO NEED THE RESOLUTION OF IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT:

Why do small cells need a forum?


Small Cell Forum drives the wide-scale adoption of

small cells. We offer both technical and marketing support

in pursuit of this aim. We work to ensure the adoption of

industry-wide standards, a positive regulatory

environment, common architectures and interoperability.

Who are we?Who are we?

BOARD MEMBERS


We have built an ecosystem of

small cell operators, vendors

and experts unmatched in the

telecommunications industry.

Since 2007 Small Cell Forum

has brought together operators,

vendors and industry experts –

nearly 150 to date –

to solve problems and

drive economies of scale.

What have we done?


We have driven the standardization of key elements of

small cell technology including Iuh, FAPI/SCAPI, SON,

the small cell services API, TR-069 evolution

and the X2 interface.

What have we done?

We have partnered with and

supported standards bodies

and other industry

associations to overcome

technical barriers, advance

economies of scale and drive

commercial deployments.

What have we done?


PARTNERSHIPS

What have we done?


We have driven the rollout of small cells and supported their deployment across

multiple use cases – from the home to the street and beyond – with a series of

comprehensive, authoritative and enormously successful operator guides:

The Release Program is working


• Survey of 59 operators January 2015 found 80% had direct

responsibility for small cell decisions or plans

• 77% found the Release documents “directly valuable” with 23%

viewing them as “extremely useful”

• 54% said the documents had supported critical business or

technical decisions

“The Release Program is highly rated by its users in terms of one of its most important

objectives, to lower the barriers to deployment which still exist for many carriers by

providing practical and in-depth information and best practice.”

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Impact of the Release Program

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Ways in which the Release Program has

contributed to critical small cell decisions


• Rural & Remote comprises 16 documents, including Business Drivers

and Case Studies

• Individual documents also focus on backhaul, deployment challenges

and architectures associated with rural & remote environments

• Sets out a clear commercial and technical case for operators,

businesses and communities – everywhere

• Small cells could deliver mobile broadband to an additional 650 million

users with GDP benefits close to $1 trillion

Release Five: Rural & Remote

• Access to billions of new mobile users including high ARPU and high

value application areas

• Leverage existing investments in small cells infrastructure to work

harder in new environments

• Opportunities for differentiation and brand strengthening with

specialist services

• Significant social and economic value particularly for rural

communities in developing nations and supporting disaster relief

efforts

Small cells in Rural & Remote environments – the benefits to operators


17,000 small cells currently deployed in rural & remote environments


• Reduce initial CAPEX investment required to enter a new market with low unit

cost, low power consumption, small form factor and easy installation

• Reduced ongoing OPEX costs in remote environments

• Delivers low costs per subscriber by targeting small concentrated pockets of users

• Enable new ecosystems where the operator no longer needs to own and run the

entire RAN

• Open up more backhaul options in remote areas

Small cells suit Rural & Remote environments

“Operators can tap into captive, previously untapped and

unreachable markets due to reduced deployment costs

and new ecosystems to deliver via small cells”

Operator investment in small cells in Rural & Remote areas


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Real Wireless


Wi-Fi integration

SON evolution

Virtualization of the small cell layer

TODAY OUR MEMBERS ARE DRIVING SOLUTIONS TO MISSION-CRITICAL ISSUES THAT INCLUDE:

Integration of small cells into 5G

standards evolution

HetNet interoperability

Regulatory development

A member driven organization


Launched in February 2013 the Small Cell Forum Release Program provides a comprehensive set of technical and

business information documents to help operators deploy small cells in the home, enterprise, urban and rural

areas. Releases are published regularly with documents made available for public download from www.scf.io

How we work

Who are we doing all this for?


We are a carrier-led organization. Our operator

members feed us their requirements and we respond.

OPERATORS

We do this for you.

What can you do?


Make your voice heard.

Join us.

Tell us what your customers need.