"A lot of this stuff was just overtalked before products became available to start with," Ovum analyst Daryl Schoolar said. "There's been a humongous hype factor around small cells," though not with carrier Wi-Fi, he said. Still, Schoolar expects product shipments and early commercial deployments of small cells to start picking up in the second half of this year. There's no urgency now, but continued growth in mobile use will make so-called hetnets, or heterogenous networks, necessary in the future, Schoolar believes.
As carriers such as AT&T prepare for planned small-cell rollouts and Wi-Fi integration, vendors are making rollout and management part of their pitch.
On Tuesday, Nokia Siemens Networks said its product push at MWC will include new small cells and a package of offerings for integrating Wi-Fi into mobile operators' networks, both tied in with the company's Flexi Zone heterogeneous network architecture.
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