Accelerating indoor mobile connectivity deployments for customers
Working with Three UK to turn a world-leading technical specification into a business-as-usual approach.
3 months
from Freshwave’s testing at pilot sites to it becoming Three UK’s business-as-usual approach
Developing the world’s first fully commercialised JOTS Neutral Host In-Building approach
The UK is unique in the telecoms world in having an agreed technical standard for connecting shared in-building radio solutions based on 4G small-cell technologies. Collaborating with Three UK, we took it from paper to pilot to business-as-usual.
Project type
3 months
Three months from Freshwave’s testing at pilot sites to it becoming Three UK’s business-as-usual approach
40+ sites
We brought over 40 sites live in the following six months using the NHIB spec
13 TB
April 2023 alone saw 13TB of data downloaded and over 3.5TB of data uploaded at Three UK’s NHIB sites with us
Details
- Customer name
- Soufiane Ayed
- Role
- Senior RAN Strategy and Architecture Manager
- Company
- Three UK
Freshwave fully embraces Three’s culture of innovation to better serve our customers, whoever and wherever they are. Our collaborative partnership and open approach from both the technology and commercial standpoints helped validate the current approach and inform future JOTS thinking to evolve a mobile ecosystem where all players and customers can thrive.
A streamlined approach
Using the Joint Operator Technical Specifications (JOTS) Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) and a collaboratively defined process with Three UK means faster, wider scale deployments for customers and a lighter touch for the operator.
Trusted partnerships bring real world benefits
JOTS NHIB reduces the complexity around a neutral host providing indoor mobile coverage to businesses and has been agreed by all the UK mobile network operators.
Working closely with Three UK, we established a defined process which makes deployments easier and faster, bringing assured 4G connectivity to our Three UK enterprise customers more quickly.
Get the network you need in your building
People expect to stay connected wherever they are. Find out more about how we assure indoor connectivity.
Indoor small cells
An indoor small cell is a low power cellular coverage box that boosts mobile service for people in a carefully defined area inside. They’re similar in size and shape to a Wi-Fi access point.
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