Written by Andrew Wooden for Telecoms.com
UK operator EE has deployed a ton of small cells in towns and cities in the UK designed to give its 4G coverage a shot in the arm.
Birmingham, Sheffield and Brighton are amongst the latest areas to be kitted out with EE’s small cells, designed to increase 4G capacity and reduce congestion in busy areas which are often plonked onto existing street infrastructure, such as telephone boxes, lamp posts, CCTV columns and BT’s Street Hubs.
A year ago it announced it had set up 200 of the things, and since then it has rolled out 411 more in cities such as Swansea, Leicester, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Southampton and York, as well as seasonally high traffic holiday areas such as Newquay, Paignton, Salcombe, Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea. So it can be said progress has been fairly swift.
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