Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Infrastructure Sharing Could Reduce Cell Site Requirements 80%

Mobile infrastructure sharing or outsourcing of cell towers, high rooftop sites and some backhaul connectivity might reduce cell site requirements by 80 percent, Rethink Research suggests. 


Mobile operators expect to deploy 2.9 million net additional macro and micro base stations (4G, 5G and multi-technology) in the period from 2021 to 2026, increasing the 2020 total of just over nine million to 11.9 million globally. 


source: Rethink Research 


Those base stations will be mounted on some 820,000 new radio sites. If operators made no changes in their current patterns of site sharing, that expansion of the network would require them to find and invest in at least 550,000 of those new site locations, Rethink Research


Using infrastructure sharing and outsourcing, they might need to deploy only 110,000 new sites.


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