MWC Preview: LTE WatchMWC Preview: LTE Watch

In fact, a couple of different vendors are separately promising the "smallest"-ever LTE base stations at the show. Kyocera Corp. (NYSE: KYO) and NEC Electronics Corp. are both showing micro base stations, designed to work with other base stations as elements that can boost speed and capacity in an overstretched network. [Ed. note: Obviously, a user would need an LTE radio in his or her device to take advantage of this.]

Light Reading Mobile has previously reported on the need to think small when deploying LTE. The theory is that it will be easier to maintain high data rates with a dense network deployment where more users are closer to many more smaller radios. These micro base stations are one of the first signs of this theory being put into practice.