PUBLIC SECTOR
OPERATORS

PUBLIC SECTOR
OPERATORS

Want to talk?

These shortcuts may help you out:

Let's talk

Contact

Subscription

Small Cells

Tackling street level congestion

Cellnex provides the Small Cell assets, infrastructure and services to deliver coverage and capacity exactly where it’s needed – at street level, in dense urban areas.

With demand for high bandwidth mobile services outstripping supply in many UK towns and cities, meeting user expectations now is a key challenge for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
Providing additional capacity in these hyper dense or unserved areas, and complementing current macro base stations deployments, Cellnex is your single Small Cells delivery partner.

Our independent, neutral-host solution provides operators with the confidence of working with a trusted partner. The Cellnex end-to-end Small Cells deployment service is built on our rights to use street assets for communications equipment and removes the complexity involved in dealing with multiple parties, permitting, and traffic management.

In places where it’s difficult for a macro to serve, Small Cells free up capacity on the macro and improves its performance. Experience has shown that Small Cells capture new traffic too, enhancing the customer experience and growing your market.

As the UK’s largest independent telecoms infrastructure provider, Cellnex has access to many hundreds of thousands of street furniture assets across London and other urban areas. These include lamp posts, CCTV columns, and kiosks.

With new assets and locations becoming available all the time, it’s easy to flex coverage and capacity as needed. And, with our neutral-host approach, MNO partners can access the assets on equitable terms and in the most cost-efficient way.

Explore our Small Cell Resource Centre here

Tackling street level congestion Cellnex provides the Small Cell assets, infrastructure and services to deliver coverage and capacity exactly where it’s needed – at street level, in dense urban areas. With demand for high bandwidth mobile services outstripping supply in many UK towns and cities, meeting user expectations now is a key challenge for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). Providing additional capacity in these hyper dense or unserved areas, and complementing current macro base stations deployments, Cellnex is your single Small Cells delivery partner. Our independent, neutral-host solution provides operators with the confidence of working with a trusted partner. The Cellnex end-to-end Small Cells deployment service is built on our rights to use street assets for communications equipment and removes the complexity involved in dealing with multiple parties, permitting, and traffic management.

Small Cells

Small Cells are key to a great mobile user experience. There are many locations in which macro solutions alone cannot address the traffic requirements for the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). Small Cells deliver coverage and capacity exactly where it’s needed – at street level, in dense urban areas.

watch the video

The benefits

Multi-operator neutral host solutions
Purpose-built 4G/5G solution
Flexible commercial models
Relationship with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs)
Fully managed service

Coverage from all UK Mobile Network Operators on a single solution.

Eliminates dropped calls and slow mobile internet; ensures seamless voice and data communications throughout your building.

The right combination of upfront and recurring charges to suit your business.

Our established relationships with all UK MNOs reduces the complexity of dealing with multiple parties.

An end-to-end service, including design, installation, management of MNO connections, system monitoring, and maintenance.

Coverage from all UK Mobile Network Operators on a single solution.

Eliminates dropped calls and slow mobile internet; ensures seamless voice and data communications throughout your building.

The right combination of upfront and recurring charges to suit your business.

Our established relationships with all UK MNOs reduces the complexity of dealing with multiple parties.

An end-to-end service, including design, installation, management of MNO connections, system monitoring, and maintenance.

Product detail

Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is a means of propagation of wireless communication, that amplifies and transports any wireless signal; so do so called small cells. A DAS is protocol agnostic; it can transport any wireless signal be it from one of the mobile operators, the signals of public safety networks, private networks, portable radio’s, etc. In this sense, a DAS is a building utility like any other. From the landlord’s perspective it is a generic building facility; from the tenants or users perspective it is a natural service capability of ‘his’ building or venue. With a DAS, a building meets the expectations of a demanding public.
Cellnex plays the role of a real neutral host and manages the complete life cycle of the solution: permits, design, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance (O&M), and service quality assurance.

Cellnex deploys multi-operator solutions, so that a common telecom infrastructure can be used by different MNOs. Mobile operators are the license holders and therefore own the frequencies. The alignment with them is a specialty that requires a lot of experience and a deep knowledge of radio networks. Our vast experience and our role of coordination reduce the time to market while providing an excellent quality of service. Sharing infrastructure results in an improvement in cost efficiency and minimises the visual impact. The open model allowed by Cellnex is beneficial for all engaged parties and provides universal service to all users, regardless of which MNO are they subscribers.

Key figures

United Kingdom

1,000 Small Cells & Nodes

London city, Etihad Stadium, Old War Office Hotel, Lidl Supermarkets

France

121 nodes

SOCO and Matignon office buildings and Tour Emblem skycrape

Ireland

14 nodes

Lidl Supermarkets and Dublin city center

Italy

1,772 nodes

San Siro Stadium, Milan city center, Brescia and Genoa underground, Ikea and Lidl stores, Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda and Bergamo Hospitals

Portugal

2 passive DAS

Super Bock Arena and Eduardo Santos Vila Hospital

Spain

769 nodes

Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid underground, SABA Car Parks, Málaga Cruise Terminal, Liceu Theatre, Barcelona city center

Switzerland

8 nodes

Lidl Supermarkets

1/7

Find out more about our Small Cell solutions for dense urban locations

Commercial Development Manager, Cellnex UK

Neil Chisholm

sales@cellnextelecom.co.uk

Siza – Distributed Antenna System (DAS)

see use case

show more use cases

Connected Street Infrastructure In London: Leading the way in connecting Small Cell assets to dark fibre

see use case

Challenges

In the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, ultra-fast mobile [+]

Solution

We brought small cells and dark fibre together to deliver [+]

see use case

show more use cases

Outdoor DAS Small Cells in historical city of Italy, Erice

see use case

Challenges

There are two great challenges to overcome with historic European [+]

Solution

In order to accomplish this, we have deployed a MIMO [+]

see use case

show more use cases

Complete coverage in the largest car park group in Spain bringing connectivity to the most difficult places

see use case

Challenges

Car parks are infamous for the inability to get good [+]

Solutions

With a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) in place in from [+]

see use case

show more use cases

Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium is Fully Connected

see use case

Challenges

Manchester City needed to boost mobile coverage and capacity to [+]

Solution

Cellnex deployed a MIMO solution with 188 antennas, divided into [+]

see use case

show more use cases

Milan Underground Metropolitana L5: A new metro line granting full mobile coverage for travelers

see use case

Challenges

Metropolitana Milano needed continuous, seamless connectivity on its Line M5 [+]

Solution

The Cellnex-deployed SISO solution, with 508 antennas and 53 RUs, [+]

see use case

show more use cases

Cellnex UK’s unrivalled deployment experience has enabled us to optimise delivery processes. These ensure reliable deployment of Small Cells in the shortest possible timeframe.

Mike Harrison

Head of Product & Solutions, Cellnex UK