Small Cells: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2021 to 2027

Table of Contents

1. Small Cells: Market Description and Market Dynamics
1.1 Small Cells Definition
1.1.1 Web-Scale Architectures Deliver Signals Close to the SmartPhone
1.1.2 Small Cells Set to Be Major Enabler for 5G
1.1.3 Vision for 5G
1.1.4 Outdoor Small Cell Market Is in The Beginning Stages of Deployment
1.2 Small Cells Bring Transformational 5G
1.2.1 Small Cells Market Driving Forces
1.3 Small Cell Networks
1.3.1 Small Cells Industry Addresses Fast-Paced Change
1.4 Small Cell Signal Enhancement
1.5 Shared Spectrum Radios
1.6 Base Station Functional Splits
1.6.1 Small Cells Miniature Cellular Base Stations
1.6.2 Small Cell Operator Challenges
1.6.3 Small Cell Base Stations
1.7 5G Envisioned as A Unifying Connectivity Fabric That Connects Everything Around Us
1.8 Business Model for Small Cells
1.8.1 Small Cell Site Risks Different from Tower Site Risks

2. Small Cells Market Shares and Forecasts
2.1 Small Cell Market Driving Forces
2.2 Small Cell Market Shares and Segments
2.2.1 Ericsson Small Cells
2.2.2 Samsung Small Cells
2.2.3 Nokia Small Cells
2.3 Small Cell Market Forecasts
2.4 Small Cell Market Segments
2.5 Small Cells Intercity Carrier Indoor Mobile Connectivity
2.6 Small Cells Intercity Carrier Outdoor Mobile Connectivity
2.7 Small Cells Stadium and Large Venues Mobile Connectivity
2.8 Small Cells Remote Vehicle Subarrays Mobile Connectivity
2.9 Small Cells Autonomous Vehicles
2.10 Small Cells Private Campus Connectivity
2.11 Small Cells Residential
2.12 Small Cells for Industrial Robots
2.13 Small Cell Market Segments Percent of Total and Percent Growth
2.13.1 Small Cell Applications 3G, 4G, and 5G
2.13.2 Number of Wireless Customers
2.13.3 Mobile Data Traffic
2.13.4 International 5G Activity Growing Significantly
2.13.5 5G Network Countries: South Korea
2.13.6 5G Networks in China
2.13.7 5G Network in Japan
2.13.8 5G Network in The United States
2.13.9 Leading 5G Vendors
2.13.10 Small Cell Installation Issues
2.13.11 Small Cell Backhaul
2.13.12 Enterprise Needs for Indoor Coverage
2.14 Small Cells/Campus
2.14.1 Healthcare
2.14.2 Higher Education
2.14.3 Commercial Real Estate Properties
2.14.4 5G for Hospitality Buildings, Convention Halls and Leisure Spaces
2.14.5 Spectrum Spatial Efficiency
2.14.6 Small Cell Vendor Response to Market Challenges
2.15 DAS
2.16 Number of Mobile Internet Users
2.17 Small Cell Prices
2.18 Small Cell Regional Market Analysis
2.18.1 Wholesale Turf Vendor Mobile Backhaul Network Operators
2.18.2 US Small Cell Networks
2.18.3 San Francisco Leads in Municipal Small Cell Deployment
2.18.4 San Francisco Leads the Way in Municipal Small Cell Deployment
2.18.5 Asia-Pacific Market
2.18.6 China
2.18.7 Japan
2.18.8 UK
2.18.9 UK Response to Huawei Threats
2.18.10 UK EE
2.18.11 Iran
2.18.12 Small Cell Deployments by Region and Density, Indoor, and Outdoor, Architecture

3. Small Cells Residential Products and Carrier Markets
3.1 Small Cells Installed Base
3.1.1 Wireless Technologies Overview
3.2 Wireless Industry Small Cells for Homeowners
3.3 Carriers
3.4 Industry and City Examples of Small Cell Installations
3.5 Verizon

4. Small Cells Research and Technology
4.1 Small Cells Technology
4.1.1 LTE and Small Cells
4.1.2 Public Safety Bands
4.2 Modern Mobile Network
4.3 FCC Position on Small Cells
4.3.1 Understanding Small Cells and Their Role in 5G
4.3.2 Regulations
4.4 Small Cells Local Regulations
4.4.1 Qualcomm FSM Platform Liberated by FCC Decision
4.4.2 Small Cell Rules on Small Cells as Macro Cells
4.4.3 Small Cells Support Competitiveness of Nations
4.5 Industry Associations
4.5.1 Cambridge Wireless
4.5.2 ETSI
4.5.3 Network Vendors IOT Forum
4.5.4 3GPP
4.5.5 The Telecom Infra Project
4.6 Macro Network Layer
4.6.1 LTE Small Cell Technology

5. Small Cells Company Profiles - Selected Equipment Manufacturers, Services Providers, and Installers
5.1 Airspan
5.2 ANS
5.2.1 ANS Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), Small Cells
5.3 ADRF
5.4 Airspan
5.5 AT&T
5.5.1 AT&T Small Cells
5.5.2 Fiber is Key to 5G
5.6 CommScope/Airvana
5.6.1 Commscope Revenue by Segment
5.7 Corning/SpiderCloud
5.7.1 SpiderCloud Small Cell Technology
5.7.2 Corning Small Cell Self-Organizing/Self-Optimizing “SON” System
5.8 Crown Castle
5.9 Ericsson Small Cells
5.9.1 Ericsson Holistic View of The Network
5.9.2 LM Ericsson Revenue
5.9.3 Ericsson Benefits of Integrated Small Cells
5.9.4 Ericsson Light Pole Site
5.9.5 Ericsson Radio Dot System
5.9.6 Ericsson Dual Band Radio Dot
5.9.7 Ericsson Hardened Radio Dot for Outdoor and Stadium Deployments
5.9.8 Ericsson Small Cell In-Building Solutions
5.9.9 Ericsson, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Small cells
5.10 Fujitsu Phase Shifters
5.11 Huawei
5.11.1 Huawei Small Cell Achievements in 4.5G/5G Technologies with China Mobile
5.11.2 Densify Cellular Networks, Creating Serious Inter-Cell Interference Solution
5.11.3 Huawei Revenue
5.11.4 Huawei
5.11.5 Huawei
5.11.6 Huawei 5G Operator Collaboration
5.11.7 Huawei 5G Vendor Trials
5.11.8 Huawei 5G X-Haul
5.12 Mavenir/ip.access
5.12.1 Mavenir/ip.access
5.12.2 Ip.access Industry Standards
5.12.3 Ip.access Viper Small Cells
5.13 Motorola
5.14 Nokia
5.14.1 Nokia Small Cells Improve TCO
5.14.2 Nokia Small Cells Deliver Cost-Effective Capacity and Coverage, Indoors and Outdoors, Key to Network Innovation
5.14.3 Nokia Small Cells Support Heterogeneous Network
5.14.4 Nokia Small Cell Deployments
5.14.5 Smart WiFi Delivers Carrier Grade Wireless Access with Nokia AirScale Wi-Fi
5.14.6 Nokia AirScale Wi-Fi Allows Service Providers Without Licensed Spectrum to Run a Wi-Fi service That Takes Advantage of Mobile Edge Computing
5.14.7 Nokia Revenue
5.15 NTSI
5.16 Optimos
5.16.1 City of New York Selects Optimos
5.16.2 Irma and Maria Recovery - Acorn
5.16.3 Optimos International to Rollout PICOs Nationally
5.17 Qualcomm
5.17.1 Qualcomm 5G Leadership Advantage
5.17.2 Qualcomm Technologies' Leading-Edge Cellular
5.17.3 Qualcomm Revenue
5.18 Samsung
5.18.1 Samsung Mobile Communications Segment
5.18.2 Samsung Developing 5G Small Cells for Verizon
5.18.3 Verizon's 5G Ultra-Wideband Network
5.18.4 Samsung Key Enhanced Features of Next Generation BBU
5.18.5 Cellular Signal Booster, Das, Public Safety Das Equipment
5.19 Small Cell Forum
5.20 Solid Technologies
5.21 Texas Instruments
5.22 ZTE
5.22.1 ZTE Revenue
5.23 Selected List of Small Cell Companies
5.23.1 Cell Phone Signal Boosters for Home

List of Figures
Figure 1. 5G Provides Coverage and Capacity
Figure 2. Small Cell Market Driving Forces
Figure 3. Small Cell Infrastructure Critical Issues
Figure 4. Industry Increasing Network Bandwidth Dramatically
Figure 5. Converged Networks
Figure 6. Small Cell Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018
Figure 7. Small Cells Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2019-2025
Figure 8. Vision for 5G
Figure 9. Small Cells That Amplify Cellular Phone Signals Making Possible More Uses of a Mobile Phone Indoors
Figure 10. Barriers to Market Development for Outdoor Small Cell Market in Beginning Stages of Deployment
Figure 11. Outdoor Small Cell Cost Issues
Figure 12. Constraints on 5G Development
Figure 13. Small Cells Market Driving Forces
Figure 14. Small Cells Industry Adaptation to Change
Figure 15. Small Cells Industry Adaptations
Figure 16. Small Cells Industry Imperatives
Figure 17. Inside Building Poor RF Coverage, RF Distribution Systems
Figure 18. Cell Phone Signal Enhancement Process
Figure 19. Cell Phone Signal Simulation using iBwave
Figure 20. Types of Buildings Using Cell Phone Signal Enhancement
Figure 21. Shared Spectrum Radios Network Changes
Figure 22. 5G Small Cell Benefits
Figure 23. Low-Cost Characteristics of Small Cells
Figure 24. Fixed Mobile Convergence Handset Illustration
Figure 25. 5G Innovation Platform Features
Figure 26. Small Cell Industry Increasing Network Bandwidth Dramatically
Figure 27. Small Cell Business Model Elements
Figure 28. Small Cell Operational Risks Different from Tower Site Rental Business
Figure 29. Small Cell Market Driving Forces
Figure 30. Small Cell Market Driving Factors
Figure 31. Small Cell Market Issues
Figure 32. Small Cell Infrastructure Critical Issues
Figure 33. Converged Networks
Figure 34. Small Cell Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 35. Ericsson Market Strengths
Figure 36. Ericsson 5G Focused Business Strategy
Figure 37. Small Cell Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 38. Small Cell Equipment Market Shares, Units, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 39. Small Cell Company Market Positioning, 2020
Figure 40. Fiber Homes Passed AT&T
Figure 41. Small Cell Market Segments Dollars, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 42. Ericsson Multi-Operator Dot Small Cell
Figure 43. Small Cells Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 44. Small Cell Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 45. Small Cell Market Forecasts Units, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 46. Small Cell Market Segments
Figure 47. Small Cells Intercity Carrier Indoor Mobile Connectivity Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 48. Small Cells Intercity Carrier Outdoor Mobile Connectivity Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 49. Small Cells Stadium and Large Venues Mobile Connectivity Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 50. Small Cells Remote Vehicle Subarrays Mobile Connectivity Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 51. Small Cells Autonomous Vehicles Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021- 2027
Figure 52. Small Cells Private Campus Connectivity Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 53. Small Cells Residential Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 54. Small Cells for Industrial Robots Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 55. Small Cell Market Segments Percent of Total, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 56. Small Cell Market Segments Percent Growth, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 57. 5G Application Network Improvements
Figure 58. Wireless Customer Market Forecasts, Worldwide, 2020
Figure 59. Industry Increasing Network Bandwidth Dramatically
Figure 60. Mobile Data Traffic Growth
Figure 61. Ericsson Estimate of Worldwide Wireless Subscriber Base
Figure 62. Power, Coverage, and Capacity of Small Cells
Figure 63. Back Haul Small Cell Market Is Primarily Driving Factors
Figure 64. Small Cell Hyperdense Installation in Oakland CA
Figure 65. Hyperdense Work Streams Features
Figure 66. Hyper-dense Smart Cell Features
Figure 67. Nokia Femtocell Price Image
Figure 68. Small Cell Prices and Coverage, Verizon, Samsung and AT&T
Figure 69. Sprint Magicbox
Figure 70. Small Cells Regional Market Segments, 2020
Figure 71. Small Cells Regional Market Segments, 2020
Figure 72. A Recent Crown Castle Small Cell with VZ on it at 35th & Lituanica, Chicago:
Figure 73. Small Cells San Francisco and Oakland
Figure 74. Small Cells and Electricity Distribution
Figure 75. Small Cells Installed Base
Figure 76. Small Cell Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide, 2021 - 2027
Figure 77. Small Cell Market Forecasts, Installed Base Units, Worldwide, 2020 - 2027
Figure 78. Small Cell Market Segments Percent Units, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 79. Small Cell Market Segments Units, Worldwide, 2021-2027
Figure 80. Small Cells vs. DAS Locations
Figure 81. Houston Small Cell Separate Site Applications
Figure 82. Industry Small Cell Installations, Examples
Figure 83. Small Cells on Light and Utility Poles
Figure 84. Small Cells on Street Light Poles
Figure 85. Small Cells Installed on Traffic Signals
Figure 86. Small Cells Hosted on Bill Boards
Figure 87. Small Cells Installed on Wooden Utility Poles
Figure 88. Small Cells Installed Inside an Advertising Board in a Bus Shelter
Figure 89. Small Cells Hosted on Water Towers
Figure 90. Small Cell Density City of Los Angeles
Figure 91. Los Angeles Small Cell Clusters
Figure 92. Boston Small Cell Clusters
Figure 93. Denver Public Works Approved Small Cell Locations
Figure 94. 5G Download Speed in 5 US City Downtowns, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Figure 95. mmWave Spectrum 5G Download Speed by Wireless Provider: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Figure 96. Small Cell Forum Partners
Figure 97. Small Cell Forum Collaboration Partners
Figure 98. Problems with Small Cells
Figure 99. Integrate Wireless Technology into The Built Environment
Figure 100. 5G Licensed, Shared, and Unlicensed Spectrum Bands and Properties
Figure 101. Bandwidth Allocation by Country
Figure 102. 5G Spectrum Utilizing Low, Mid, and High Bands
Figure 103. 5G NR mmWave Outdoor Coverage via co-Siting
Figure 104. Selected Telecomm Associations
Figure 105. Airspan Portfolio of Solutions’
Figure 106. Airspan Wireless Indoor 5G Small Cell
Figure 107. ANS Trusted Source of Backhaul Expertise
Figure 108. DAS Services by ANS
Figure 109. Small Cell Services by ANS
Figure 110. DAS Services by ANS
Figure 111. ADRF Positioning
Figure 112. Commscope 5G Business
Figure 113. Commscope Revenue by Segment
Figure 114. Commscope Revenue 2020 and 2019
Figure 115. Metro Cell Solution Locations
Figure 116. Macro Cell Tower Solutions Locations
Figure 117. Macro Cell Tower Solutions Signal Transmission Types
Figure 118. Metro Cell Solution Signal Transmission Types
Figure 119. SpiderCloud LTE Small Cell Technology
Figure 120. Corning SON Architecture and External Interface Functions
Figure 121. Corning SON Architecture and External Interface Image
Figure 122. Ericsson Outdoor Micro Radio Small Cells
Figure 123. Ericsson Revenue 2017 to 2020
Figure 124. Eriksson Strong 5G Portfolio
Figure 125. Ericsson Market Share Gains Regionally
Figure 126. Ericsson Market Share Gains by Leveraging the Technology Shift with Competitive offering
Figure 127. Ericsson Market Strengths
Figure 128. Ericsson Small Cell Portfolio Features:
Figure 129. Ericsson Positioning for Small Cells
Figure 130. Ericsson End-To-End Integrated Small Cells
Figure 131. Ericsson Small Cell Strand-Mount Unit for Outdoor Micro Radios Making It Easier to Install Radios on Existing Grid: Hung On Aerial Coax, Fiber, Or Electricity Cables
Figure 132. Ericsson Multi-Operator Dot and the Multi-Dot Enclosure Functions
Figure 133. Ericsson Radio Dot System Architecture
Figure 134. Philips and Ericsson Energy Efficient Public Lighting with Ericsson Network Performance
Figure 135. Ericsson Dual Band Radio Dot
Figure 136. Ericsson Hardened Radio Dot for Outdoor and Stadium Deployments
Figure 137. Outdoor and Stadium Ericsson Hardened Radio Dot Small Cell Features
Figure 138. Ericsson Small Cell In-Building Solutions
Figure 139. Fujitsu Reduced Power Consumption and Increased the Accuracy of Beam Direction
Figure 140. Huawei Small Cells
Figure 141. Huawei Positioning with Small Cells to Address Network Operator Needs
Figure 142. Huawei Significant Breakthroughs in Air Interface Solutions
Figure 143. Small Cell 4.5G Technologies Implementations
Figure 144. Huawei Partnerships with Key Operators
Figure 145. ip.access Small Cell Solution Segments
Figure 146. Motorola Small Cell 5G Modem-RF System
Figure 147. Nokia eNode Bs Features
Figure 148. Nokia 5G AirScale and AirFrame Radio Portfolio
Figure 149. Nokia Broadband Traffic Management
Figure 150. Nokia AirScale
Figure 151. Nokia 5G mmWave Implementations
Figure 152. Nokia 5G Applications Remote Vehicle SubArrays, Multiple Nodes with Antennae elements, Indoor Mobility, Adaptive Beam Tracking, Outdoor Vehicular Mobility
Figure 153. Nokia In Building Wireless
Figure 154. Nokia Small Cell Target Markets
Figure 155. Nokia DAS and Hybrid Ethernet Based DAS
Figure 156. Nokia Supports Indoor Wireless
Figure 157. Nokia Advantages of Small Cells
Figure 158. Small Cells Support Heterogeneous Network
Figure 159. Nokia Small Cell Deployments
Figure 160. Nokia AirScale Wi-Fi’
Figure 161. NTSI Customers
Figure 162. Qualcomm Supports Network Densification with Small Cells
Figure 163. Qualcomm Multi-Gigabit Mobile Connections
Figure 164. Qualcomm Stadium, Entrance and Exit Mobile Connections
Figure 165. Qualcomm Small Cell Technology Functions
Figure 166. Qualcomm Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Grade Small Cell Solutions
Figure 167. Qualcomm Supports Robotic Manufacturing
Figure 168. Qualcomm Private 5G Networks
Figure 169. Qualcomm Supports Mobile Connectivity Indoors with Small Cell Technology
Figure 170. Qualcomm Small Cell Technologies Support Virtualized RAN vRAN
Figure 171. Qualcomm Supports Flexible Small Cell Technology
Figure 172. Qualcomm Small Cell Technology Positioning: Accelerating Mobile Deployments for Smartphones
Figure 173. Qualcomm Response to 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 Specification
Figure 174. Qualcomm/Nokia Partnership
Figure 175. Benefits of Mobile to Industries
Figure 176. Qualcomm Revenue Q4 Fiscal 2020
Figure 177. Qualcomm Revenue Q4 Fiscal 2020
Figure 178. Verizon Samsung Small Cell
Figure 179. Samsung Key Enhanced Features of The Next Generation BBU:
Figure 180. Samsung Next Generation Baseband Unit (BBU), the CDU50
Figure 181. Mobile Carriers and Wireless Networks That Need Enhanced Reception
Figure 182. Small Cell Forum Standardization of Key Elements of Small Cell Technology
Figure 183. Small Cell Forum Membership Standardization of Key Elements of Small Cell Technology
Figure 184. 5G Issues as They Relate to Small Cells and Network Densification
Figure 185. Small Cell Forum Issues, Virtualization, Cloud, Edge, Shared Spectrum, RAN
Figure 186. Operational and Deployment Requirements, Including Regulatory Frameworks, Backhaul and Sites Topics
Figure 187. Solid Healthcare Organization Wireless Applications Coverage
Figure 188. Solid Technologies Small Cells for Hospitals
Figure 189. Subsystems of a Small-Cell Unit
Figure 190. Where to Install Small-Cell Units
Figure 191. Series of ZTE LTE Small Cell products
Figure 192. ZTE Small Cell Product Highlights

Samples

• ADRF
• Airspan
• ANS
• AT&T
• CommScope/Airvana
• Corning/SpiderCloud
• Crown Castle
• Ericsson
• Fujitsu Phase Shifters
• Huawei
• Mavenir/ip.access
• Motorola
• Nokia
• NTSI
• Optimos
• Qualcomm
• Samsung
• Small Cell Forum
• Solid Technologies
• Texas Instruments
• ZTE