January 2017 | Business View Magazine

206 207 growth will most likely be in network densification.“Network densification can be accomplished in twoways–upgrading and/or deployingmore hardware on existing sites,and building a higher volume of smaller sites,”he adds. Regarding small cell infrastructure, Foster is not unaware of some of the challenges inherent in that part of the business. “There still are regu- latory and jurisdictional challenges in terms of getting the entitlements and the rights to deploy small cells, on scale,” he maintains. “This is new. You walk into a city and want to deploy a hundred nodes, and they don’t know how to deal with a hundred, because they’ve been dealing with three, or four, or ten requests a year and they see it as this big 150 foot tower. But what you’re really talking about is placing a radio and antenna, very discreetly, on some existing infrastructures. So, not every jurisdic- tion is prepared to deal with that. But as time goes on, the speed and the scale in which those deployments will happen will be achieved. And we’d like to be playing a big role in that.” Preferred vendors n Summit Comm, Inc. joshua.morales@summitcomm.net n B.I.T. Services, LLC. www.bitservicesllc.com n Apex Site Solutions apexsitesolutions.com n Addison Construction & Communications www.addisoninc.com vinculums services Vinculums Services has become the leading telecom infrastructure service provider for wireless oper- ators throughout theWestern and Southern United States. People produce quality and that provides growth and opportunity. So our focus is both recruiting and developing our team. Our services are a direct result of the scale and caliber of our team. PAUL FOSTER CEO