Swedish telecoms giant, Ericsson claims the 100th deployment for its indoor small cells portfolio, the Radio Dot System. Recently, Sichuan Mobile, the largest mobile communications operator in western China, become the latest service provider to adopt the solution to improve mobile coverage in office buildings, shopping malls, college campuses and hospitals for improved in-door app coverage.
Ericsson said that across all its Radio Dot System deployments around the world, mobile data throughput has improved by up to five times, dropped calls have been reduced to zero and installation times are as low as four minutes per Dot. The system supports LTE (both TDD and FDD), WCDMA and dual-mode combinations. In live Radio Dot System deployments, 77 percent support LTE, with almost 10 percent of those running dual-mode LTE and WCDMA on the same Dots.
According to Ericsson, small cell architectures like the Ericsson Radio Dot System are set to become increasingly prevalent as networks evolve towards 5G commercial availability, commencing in 2020.
Arun Bansal, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Radio, Ericsson
We are pleased to welcome Si Chuan Mobile to the growing global family of Ericsson Radio Dot System operators.
Chen Ke, General Manager of Ziyang branch of Sichuan Mobile
We like the Radio Dot System because it is fast and easy to deploy, and enables us to address both current and future indoor capacity requirements by just updating the software.
