iConnectiva lands a Tier 1 Operator Head Quartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

iConnectiva lands a Tier 1 operator Head Quartered in Overland Park, Kansas.  iConnectiva will deploy thousands of new macro sites and tens of thousands of small cells. These small cells will enable this carrier to “add capacity in targeted high-traffic areas, as well as extend better service in hard to reach locations and indoor sites.” Said President of Americas, Adam Maghrouri.

“Here in the U.S., this distinguish carrier controls approximately 120 megahertz of 2.5 GHz spectrum in 90 of the top 100 largest cities,” said Maghrouri. “2.5 GHz spectrum is uniquely suited for delivering a lot of data at very high speeds, particularly in dense urban environments.”

This carrier is taking different approach for its small cell deployment. iConnectiva, a provider of neutral-host DAS and small cell networks, is widely expected to partner with this carrier and to potentially pay for part of the deployment. iConnectiva can monetize the small cell network by leasing space to other carriers in addition to this carrier.

“We’ll be extremely surgical and efficient, leveraging big data and network diagnostics to determine the optimal deployment of each small cell down to the street corner level,” said Adam Maghrouri in describing the upcoming small cell deployment.

“The first thing you don’t do is just go in and start adding cells,” Continued Adam Maghrouri. “You actually look at improvement in performance through software functionality and other elements. Then you actually make sure you’ve got the dense coverage that you need, and that densification can come from macro build out, from leveraging your different spectrum bands appropriately, and finally adding cells, adding small cells. … The approach that operators need to take can be captured in three phases: Improve, densify and then add.”

 “We expect that this carrier with the combination of the iConnectiva’s surgical network build of tri-band LTE (800 MHz/1.9 GHz/2.5 GHz), densifying with tens of thousands of small cells, and integrated with carrier aggregation and beamforming technology, the carrier has the potential to provide a differentiated customer experience and higher data throughput via its network,” said Maghrouri.

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