Its been a few months since this Cambridge Wireless (CW) seminar on 'Is small-cell thinking changing the face of remote and rural coverage?'. David Chambers (ThinkSmallCell) has written a post summarising the event here but I thought it would be worth bringing this event to people's attention.
The presentations from this event are available here. There was a talk on how Nokia Kuha are being installed on Isle of Lewis in Scotland. I have written about them earlier here.
IP.Access talked about their rural deployment in Peru. To quote thinksmallcell article:
For the most remote areas, ip.access gave an extreme example from Peru where it took two days just to reach the site. Again the financial figures look small but can still be profitable. Where a macrocell might serve 1000-2000 users, a remote small cell might serve 100. In this example, a village with 300 people attracted 91 users with an ARPU of $11 generating $12,000 per annum.
This was an EU funded research project called TUCAN3G. There are more details about it on the project website.Real Wireless talked about the whitepaper they did for Small Cell Forum. It makes an interesting reading.
Finally, Ayan Ghosh from BT talked about Airmasts. I have covered this in detail here.
With regards to the IP.Access Peru story where remote users did generate a lot of revenue for the operator, I know the same applies to UK. From my travels looking at rural coverage I have seen that the users in rural community make full use of whatever capacity is made available to them. I posted an interview that I am posting again below.
Related links:
- CW seminar on Remote and Rural Small Cells - ThinkSmallCell
- Business drivers for connecting the unconnected via small cells - Small Cell Forum
- 'Is small-cell thinking changing the face of remote and rural coverage?' - Cambridge Wireless
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