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T-Mobile’s expanded Crown Castle agreement will bring more small cells to improve 4G LTE, prep for 5G

T-Mobile this week announced a deal to improve its existing 4G LTE network and help it to prepare for 5G. T-Mobile and Crown Castle have agreed to expand their long-term relationship. As part of the deal, Crown Castle will deploy more small cells within its footprint and roll out small cells in new markets. This will help T-Mo to increase its 4G LTE network capacity and get ready for its 5G deployoment. Here’s T-Mobile … [read full article]

T-Mobile planning to deploy 28,000 small cells soon

T-Mobile is always working to build out and improve its service, and today one T-Mo exec detailed another way in which the carrier will densify its network. Karri Kuoppamaki said that T-Mobile plans to deploy 28,000 small cells “in the short term.” Kuoppamaki, T-Mo’s VP of Technology Development and Strategy, didn’t say anything else about the rollout, but he did go into a bit more detail about T-Mobile’s approach to deploying small cells: “You can do … [read full article]