Stories behind the signal
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Myth-busting hospital connectivity challenges in modern healthcare
If you’ve ever tried to make a mobile call from a hospital – or watched a clinician stand by a window to try and get signal to their smartphone – you’ll know that using a mobile device inside a hospital can be a challenge. Hospitals are often mobile signal not spots, with their thick walls…
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Core inefficiencies: The hidden impact of a disconnected hospital
Disconnected care: The impact of poor mobile connectivity in NHS hospitals A three-part series 3/3 Hospitals can be some of the most challenging environments to deliver assured 4G and 5G connectivity to. Thick walls, miles of ducting and complex layouts, combined with materials to keep people safe (such as lead shielding in x-ray suites), block…
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Staying oink-line: New mast at Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World, enhances mobile connectivity for visitors and staff
Paultons Park is a family-run theme park in Hampshire, England, with over 70 rides and attractions, including the enormously popular Peppa Pig World. The park itself is set in 140 acres of parkland in New Forest National Park and had a long-standing requirement for additional mobile coverage. And welcoming more than one million visitors annually,…
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Freshwave wins the Fixed Wireless Access Award at Connected Britain with their mobile private network project
The Fixed Wireless Access Award recognises an organisation who can demonstrate a successful fixed wireless access initiative.
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A sign of the times: Freshwave’s very own grandmaster clock
A recent customer deployment of ours would normally have needed a GPS antenna installed on the building’s roof as part of the work. A big job on a skyscraper. But we thought there was a better way.
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An extra mobile mobile private network
What’s even more mobile than a mobile private network? A mobile private network in a suitcase!
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The power of the independent telecom tower
Events of the past year have clearly demonstrated the importance of connectivity. Even before the pandemic, there was more demand for mobile connectivity driven by both consumer and business use.
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Glasgow goes for open access
Glasgow City Council recently became the first council in Scotland to adopt the open access approach to mobile connectivity and we’re very pleased to be working with them under this model.
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Freshwave scoops the “Excellence in Commercial Deployment by an Alternative Service Provider” gong at the Small Cell Awards
Freshwave’s winning deployment is at a popular UK holiday park. It uses shared licensed spectrum and small cells to deliver 4G data speeds via a secure mobile private network to lodges in the park.
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Raising awareness of women working in telecoms
19% of the people working in the tech industry in the UK are female, according to WIT. This is a statistic we’re passionate about increasing through outreach and awareness. Because as Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin said, “you can’t be what you can’t see”. Since 2018, we’ve been actively working with communities local to us and our…
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Our predictions on 2021 telecom market trends
As the UK market leaders in delivering multi-operator networks indoors and outdoors, we’re actively working with all four UK mobile network operators (MNOs) as they explore different approaches towards improving coverage.