4G small cells industry is poised for growth: Maravedis report

MONTREAL - The small cell industry is rapidly maturing, motivated by a data-driven capacity crunch and increasingly widespread advances in LTE deployments, according to the latest Maravedis market report Small Cells Market Trends and Forecasts 2011-2016.Small cells provide technology options with the potential to meet operators' short and long-term capacity requirements amid CAPEX and OPEX constraints. As mobile operators expand the number of base stations in their networks to meet capacity requirements, they could benefit from increased price and technology competition among small cell vendors and decreasing hardware costs, according to the report."Adding the massive number of base stations required...