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Opensignal, a mobile analytics company on Monday said that the mobile operators across the world will put a “greater thought on where to build mobile base stations” in the upcoming years. The company in a report released on Monday made its predictions on “The Mobile Future” for 2021 and beyond. Opensignal highlighted that 2020 witnessed “changes in the locations and nature of mobile usage across many countries including India” along with the “changes in mobile data consumption levels” due to the pandemic. With the changes felt across multiple fronts inside the telecom ecosystem including the shift in the location of mobile usage, Opensignal said that the operators will “look at how to manage capacity more dynamically.”
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The mobile analytics company in late July, 2020, said in a report that the mobile users in the Tier 2 cities in India “were the most affected during the lockdown.” Opensignal also highlighted that the mobile networks in urban areas recovered quickly post the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions due to multiple reasons including migration of workers from cities to their hometowns. The company said that the migration of workers would mean that the users “may be spending more time in parts of the country where operators originally may have not designed network infrastructure to manage large traffic loads.”
“As lockdowns ease, operators will look at how to manage capacity more dynamically, for example between downtown areas and residential suburbs, and be more nimble to future changes in the pattern of mobile usage,” Opensignal said in a report on Monday.
Crucially, Opensignal said that the “business case for building ultra dense 5G networks with small cells” in areas such as city centres will be “re-evaluated” if users spend less time there in the future.
