UK carrier EE uses small cells to deploy rural LTE network

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The British mobile carrier EE has hooked up a rural village in a deep north England valley using a new kind of network that doesn’t require fixed-line broadband connections to its base stations, and that can therefore be deployed within a few hours. The deployment uses a “micro network” system from equipment provider Parallel Wireless. The system’s cells connect to one another in a mesh network, which in turn connects wirelessly back to a normal macro base station some 6km (3.7 miles) away.


UK carrier EE uses small cells to deploy rural LTE network