Indoor DAS is a growing business for providers of wireless infrastructure services, as carriers look to distributed antenna systems to densify their networks and boost coverage. Contractors are learning that to serve the carriers in this role they need to deploy workers with specific...
BlueStream Professional Services has purchased parts of Tempest Telecom's DAS business, and will bring one of the industry's most experienced distributed antenna system professionals onboard to manage its DAS and small cells business. Darlene Braunschweig, former president of Tempest's DAS and small cell division,...
Distributed antenna systems provide connectivity behind the scenes, out of sight, even underground in some cases, and at times they have been as hard to find in corporate financial results as they are in some of the venues where they're deployed. But that's starting to change....
Tony Lefebvre of TE Connectivity discussed with RCR Wireless News the necessity of network densification and how DAS is making that possible.
Lefebvre also talks about industry trends that his company is noticing, as well as a preview of TE Connectivity's upcoming partnership with Alcatel-Lucent on...
Like many other successful companies, American Tower is outgrowing its name. "American" no longer refers just to the United States; towers in other parts of North and South America are now a big part of the company's portfolio. And that portfolio has expanded beyond...
Crown Castle oDAS in Utah
Utah's Department of Transportation expects to be able to monitor weather and traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon, thanks to a new distributed antenna system it is installing with Crown Castle along Utah's Route 210. Eleven antenna poles will be connected...
Now that the FIFA World Cup has ended, carriers and observers are evaluating how the mobile networks performed during the tournament. While the National Union of Fixed and Mobile Telecom Companies of Brazil (SindiTelebrasil) claimed that 2G, 3G and LTE coverage performed beyond expectations and that it received a low...
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Negative Impact on Real Estate
Certainly you've heard in your own experience and through various news stories here in this weekly recap about how people don't want...
In infrastructure news this week, Target Field gets a DAS upgrade' New York's underground DAS shows its weak spots' and Sonus upgrades its SBC portfolio.
Sonus 'Lyncs' customers to UC
Sonus says demand for Microsoft Lync is a big driver of its recent upgrades to its...
Nokia Networks announces two acquisitions
Nokia Networks said today that it will buy Nice Systems' 3D geolocation business to enhance the planning and optimization of mobile networks. "The evolution of small cells and LTE necessitates more accurate 3-D geolocation capabilities," Nokia said.
Israel will be the...
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Distributed antenna systems have had a long history in the mobile network space, having been one of the first widely deployed “small cell” technologies used to densify network coverage and capacity in public venues. However, recent years has seen the rise of more specialized...
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Tower climber injured, but OK
This past week a tower climber was injured while working on a tower in Georgia. The climber was 125 feet up on...
Neutral host Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) operate over a wide frequency range in order to accommodate as many users as possible. The antennas and RF power distribution network are typically designed to pass signals between 698 to 2700 MHz, and sometimes wider. A question...
With more than half of all U.S. wireless calls and data sessions now originating indoors, building owners are acutely aware of the need for indoor connectivity. "Many new venue owners who don't have DAS infrastructure installed are coming to us, kind of recognizing our...
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Just as we expected, this week's PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show saw the tower companies more vocal than they have been in a while. This week's cell tower...
New network technologies and standards-based features driving changes at macro cell sites, and networks are moving toward HetNets with the advent of small cells and the increasing focus on indoor coverage through technologies such as distributed antenna systems (DAS). A new feature report from RCR...
DAS contracts increase in size, outpacing market growth
Typical distributed antenna system contracts for hardware only (hubs, nodes, remote radio heads, antennas, etc.) now range from $5 million to $10 million, compared to just $1 million a few years ago, according to analyst Stéphan Téral...
Wi-Fi and distributed antenna system provider Boingo Wireless is facing pressure from the New York City Council to offer free Wi-Fi service at the three major New York-area airports, for which the company holds the exclusive right to provide wireless Internet access.
The New York...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tower companies and carriers are certainly getting their day in court lately. Last week it was a federal court debating police use of cell tower...
In early April, I had the pleasure of participating in the NEDAS Forum event in New York City. The forum had attendees and speakers covering all aspects of the deployment value chain.
Beyond Wi-Fi offload
As cable operators increase their public Wi-Fi deployments, mobile operators may see some Wi-Fi hotspots reaching out to grab their customers. Last week during The Cable Show, Smith Micro Software launched an over-the-top Wi-Fi "concierge" app for iOS and Android devices.
"Wi-Fi as...
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Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...
