At a briefing in London Nokia’s small cells team detailed its current small cells activity and stressed it thinks the category is set to boom, at long last.
The company understandably consolidated its small cell portfolio as part of the Alcatel-Lucent assimilation process. At its heart now is the Flexi Zone family of products, at the apparent heart of which is the Mini-Macro LTE base station, which claims to offer many of the benefits of a macro base station in a small cell form factor.
One big small cell client win seems to have been Sprint in the US, which has bought somewhere between 50,000-100,000 (Nokia declined to offer a precise number) of the Mini-Macros, which it has rolled out in a number of urban environments as well as specific ‘hot zones’ such as stadia.
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