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SCF to Deliver Rural and Remote Small Cell Solutions to Bridge Digital Divide
Event will bring together ecosystem aiming to ensure enhanced connectivity from network densification is not confined to urban canyons
Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization driving network densification worldwide, has announced that it will host the first ever event devoted to tackling the challenges of rural and remote connectivity.
It will bring together the operator and vendor ecosystem, major technology companies and a range of partner organisations to ensure that the transformative impacts of network densification and the Internet of Things (IoT) are not limited to urban locations, but can also benefit rural residential areas and industries such as farming, mining and manufacturing.
The SCF Rural and Remote Summit in Evanston, Wyoming running July 25th-26th, will be hosted by Union Wireless, one of the USA’s longest-standing and most successful rural mobile operators.
High-quality mobile connectivity is just as critical to rural and remote areas as cities, sometimes more so, since it may be the only source of broadband. The days when ‘rural connectivity’ meant best effort, leaving many consumers and businesses the wrong side of the digital divide, are over.
Not only do those customers now expect and demand the same quality and performance as their urban cousins for broadband services, but with the approach of 5G and the genesis of the Internet of Things, a host of new mobile use cases need to be mirrored precisely in urban and rural areas.
With the emergence of the Internet of Things, a host of new mobile use cases needs to be mirrored precisely in urban and rural areas. Examples include environmental monitoring, smart agriculture via ground water & atmospheric sensors, monitoring oil pipelines, etc.
Last, but not the least, is the fast emerging opportunity within the so-called “remote” market segment, which covers remote factories and remote worksites such as mines, on-land and off-shore oil rigs, etc. There is an increasing business need from such enterprises to provide highly secure and localized services, which span productivity enhancing services as well as life saving applications.
