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Vodafone and JCDecaux create small cells

by on12 December 2014

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For small calls

Vodafone and outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux have signed an agreement for a global small-cell roll-out. Under the deal, small-cells will be deployed on street furniture and billboards in order to improve network performance in urban areas.

The agreement is part of Vodafone’s £19 billion cunning plan called Project Spring. This was started in November 2013 with the operator trying to extend its network reach, improve voice quality and increase data connectivity speeds.

Benefits are expected on 3G and 4G, indoors and outdoors, as well as bringing time and cost savings to the operator’s network upgrading programme.

The agreement will help us accelerate the deployment of small-cell technology by giving Vodafone access to locations that in the past have not been available for network installations.

Under the deal terms, Vodafone will install and manage the technology while JCDecaux will take care of the design and manufacture of the equipment-housing infrastructure, such as bus-stop shelters. The agreement covers 14 of Vodafone’s markets: Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, Australia, Qatar, Czech Republic, India, Turkey, Hungary and South Africa. It follows a pilot in Amsterdam where small-cells were deployed at 160 sites by the two partners.

 

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