Sprint Announces World’s First All-Wireless Small Cell – The Sprint Magic Box
May 03 2017 - 8:49AM
Business Wire
Small unit plugs into power, dramatically
improves customer experience, all at no additional cost
Low–cost solution enables Sprint to
cost-effectively and rapidly densify its LTE Plus network
Sprint (NYSE:S) today unveiled the Sprint Magic Box, the world’s
first all–wireless small cell. Sprint Magic Box is a revolutionary
new plug–and–play LTE small cell for businesses and consumers that
dramatically improves data coverage and increases download and
upload speeds on average by 200 percent.1 The breakthrough new
technology allows Sprint to very quickly and cost–effectively
densify its nationwide LTE Plus network, and provide an improved
experience for its millions of customers today and in the
future.
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Sprint Magic Box, a new plug-and-play LTE
small cell for businesses and consumers, dramatically improves
indoor data coverage and speeds. (Photo: Business Wire)
The Sprint Magic Box is an indoor, self-configuring small cell,
about the size of a shoebox, that’s easy for customers to install.
It requires no implementation, labor, or rental costs that are a
hurdle for many traditional small cell deployments. The unit is
simply placed near a window and plugged into a power outlet. Sprint
Magic Box connects to a nearby Sprint cell site and within minutes
is up and running. Customers immediately have a better experience
inside their businesses and homes while streaming videos, surfing
the web, and using their favorite online apps and services.
Sprint designed the Sprint Magic Box so that customers in
surrounding areas will also enjoy the benefits of the locally
installed unit. One Sprint Magic Box provides average coverage of
30,000 square feet indoors and can benefit adjacent Sprint
customers inside the building. The signal can also extend coverage
100 meters outside a building, benefitting Sprint customers in
nearby buildings and improving street–level network
performance.
Sprint Magic Box is free to use for qualifying businesses and
consumers.2
Accelerating Sprint’s Network Densification
StrategySprint Magic Box greatly accelerates Sprint’s strategy
to densify its network as it improves performance and builds a
strong foundation for 5G. It uses Sprint’s ample, dedicated 2.5 GHz
spectrum with backhaul provided by Sprint’s outdoor macro cell
sites. This removes the cost of backhaul, along with many of the
challenges typically associated with small cell deployments,
providing a low-cost, effective way to make the Sprint network –
already performing at its best–ever–levels – even better for
customers.
“Sprint Magic Box is going to quickly transform our network, and
it is key to delivering an amazing experience to customers today as
we build the kind of dense urban infrastructures needed for 5G,”
said Dr. John Saw, Sprint CTO. “By leveraging our deep spectrum
trove, Sprint has the ability to blanket its network with an
all-wireless small cell that delivers this kind of dramatic
performance boost with zero backhaul, permitting, and engineering
costs.”
Sprint Magic Box deployment has begun in several cities across
the country such as Denver, San Francisco, Indianapolis, New York,
Chicago, and Houston. In the past three months downloads speeds
across these markets have significantly improved as Sprint
rolled-out its toolkit of densification technologies such as Sprint
Magic Box, outdoor small cells, three-channel carrier aggregation,
and launched iconic new High Performance User Equipment (HPUE)
smartphones.
Unleashing Sprint’s Spectrum AdvantageThe development of
Sprint Magic Box is part of Sprint’s ongoing program to improve its
network through its Densification and Optimization strategy using
some of the most advanced technologies in wireless. With 204 MHz of
spectrum nationwide, and more than 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum in
the top 100 U.S. markets, Sprint has more spectrum capacity than
any other U.S. carrier, an advantage that Sprint Magic Box is
designed to maximize.
Sprint Magic Box is one of many network innovations taking
advantage of the company’s deep spectrum holdings. Sprint continues
to improve coverage, reliability and speeds by adding more capacity
where it’s needed with a toolbox of solutions including
three-channel carrier aggregation and HPUE. In March in New
Orleans, Sprint was the first carrier to debut Sprint Gigabit Class
LTE on a live commercial network in the U.S.
Looking ahead, Sprint will continue its deployment of
three-channel carrier aggregation on 2.5 GHz sites. The company
also anticipates leveraging a multitude of advanced technologies
including four-channel carrier aggregation, 256 QAM, 4x4 MIMO
(multiple-input, multiple-output) and Massive MIMO to further
enhance the capacity and coverage of its 2.5 GHz TDD-LTE
spectrum.
Business and consumer customers interested in the Sprint Magic
Box can learn more about product availability and see if they
qualify for the product at www.sprint.com/getmagicbox.
For Media: More information about Sprint Magic Box is available
at http://newsroom.sprint.com/magic-box.
About Sprint:Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications
services company that creates more and better ways to connect
its customers to the things they care about most. Sprint
served 59.7 million connections as of Mar. 31, 2017 and is widely
recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative
technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a
national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless;
instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five
years. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
1 Signal and speeds based on optimal conditions for most Sprint
devices.
2 If a customer no longer wants the Sprint Magic Box at their
location, Sprint will make arrangements for the customer to return
the device at no cost. Sprint may charge up to $140 to a Sprint
customer’s service account if the device is not returned.
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Media:SprintAdrienne Norton,
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