This article is the TowerXchange write up from the 2017 Europe Meetup panel session on indoor distributed networks. Contributing panellists were Patrik Jakobson, Head of Network as-a-Service, Ericsson; Nikos Antoniou, Principal Category Manager, Property, Vodafone Procurement Company; Nick Johnson, CTO, ip.access; Art King, Marketing Working Group, MulteFire Alliance; Costa Tsourkas, Head of Business Development, NEC Europe; and Mark Murphy, Analyst, Macquarie Capital.
The indoor small cells market is well established, but deployments aren’t yet widespread. In Europe, projects have tended to be trials and until total cost of ownership (TCO) is reduced, the in-building solution proposition will remain unable to address its addressable market in its entirety.
