Telenet, Belgium’s largest provider of cable broadband and mobile services has partnered with ip.access to support a major roll out of residential small cells.
The agreement enables Telenet to offer advanced wireless services to over two million residential and enterprise customers. ip.access will initially provide its advanced 3G residential small cell and fully virtualised multi-technology nanoVirt RAN platform.
This technology will help Telenet’s residential customers overcome the challenges of using mobile phones indoors and boost network capacity to keep pace with the ever-increasing mobile data demands.
Telenet will use the ip.access small cell and nanoVirt RAN platform, hosted in Telenet’s virtualised environment, to manage tens of thousands of residential small cells to provide seamless mobile coverage indoors.
ip.access said its end-to-end small cell solution enables mobile network operators to get a high quality mobile phone signal inside buildings and other hard-to-reach places, and uses broadband IP backhaul for rapid deployment and low-cost operation.
Malcolm Gordon, CEO, ip.access
Operators worldwide are under pressure to deliver fantastic in-building mobile performance, at home and elsewhere. ip.access’ virtualised scalable small cell platform means that Telenet can continue to meet the demands of its customers of all sizes as it evolves its network to 4G and beyond.
