Sprint Accelerating Use of Small Cells in Its Network

Sprint deployed more outdoor small cells in its most-recent quarter than in the previous two years combined and now has thousands, said Scott Santi, head-network deployment and operations. “With our massive Next-Gen Network investment we’ve significantly ramped up our numbers,” Santi blogged Tuesday. “We also use small cells indoors, from hotels to airports, stadiums to concerts halls and more. We have several types of small cells, including the award-winning Sprint Magic Box." He said "this low cost, self-configuring all-wireless small cell provides indoor coverage averaging up to 30,000 square feet. And it improves data speeds on average” by 200 percent.