Why are small cells needed for 5G?

One FCC commissioner recently estimated that the US needs 800,000 small cells to make 5G a reality. International Data Corporation (IDC) expects over two million—by 2021.

Key players and innovating vendors in the global small cell 5G network market include Ericsson (Sweden), Huawei (China), ZTE (China), Cisco (US), NEC (Japan), Nokia (Finland), CommScope (US), Airspan Networks (US), ip.

In the 5G era, 5G small cells will enable the network to extend coverage and to deliver lower latency, and also serve more users while maintaining multi-gigabit performance .