
Read this article to learn:
- The vision and the budget for the creation of 100 Smart Cities in India
- Methods of deploying small cells within existing mobile network architectures, implications for backhaul
- Creating PPP to accelerate permitting of smart cell sites and to define capex and opex sharing models
- Innovating street furniture design to incorporate small cells and associated backup power and backhaul solutions
- The current and potential scale of the small cell market in India
With the inauguration of India’s Smart Cities vision, and INR 100,000 Crores budget (~US$15bn), by the Prime Minister in August 2014, the country’s towercos and MNOs sit with an opportunity to add a layer of smart connectivity to urban landscapes, leveraging existing and new street furniture and cell sites to create heterogeneous networks, creating a…