Alastair Davidson from Wireless Infrastructure Group at INCA's Edinburgh 'Future Digital Infrastructure' seminar 31/5/2018

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INCA – Future Digital Infrastructure Workshop
31st May 2018

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WIG provides neutral host infrastructure
with open access to all mobile and other
wireless operators, with over 120 wireless
customers
WIG lowers the cost of coverage in
challenging areas by investing, with one
anchor customer, in rural towers and fibre
connected small cells in buildings and on
city streets
WIG has invested in over £400m of assets
to date and, backed by 3i Infrastructure plc,
plans to invest a further £1bn in neutral
host UK digital infrastructure

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WIG is the leading UK provider of fibre
connected Distributed Antenna Systems in
high footfall venues including corporate
offices, shopping malls, sports stadia and
hotels – the type of infrastructure needed
in the London Underground
May 2018 - WIG launches 4G mobile
services at Anfield Stadium for Liverpool FC
in collaboration with O2 and Vodafone

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Building a Wireless WorldWIG is the largest investor in the West
Midlands CAV testbed
WIG’s role is to build over 100 fibre
connected small cells along some 65-
80kms of test bed route
Enabling advanced 4G services from
anchor mobile operator for the testbed
Leaving a legacy of 5G ready, fibre
connected infrastructure open to all
mobile and wireless operators

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Investing in the future:
5G-ready small cells connected with fibre
In Aberdeen, WIG launched UK’s first
multi-operator fibre connected small
cell network
Providing high speed, high capacity,
contiguous network with low latency
Enabling Telefonica O2 to launch
advanced 4G LTE on the UK’s first C-RAN
mobile network

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Independent infrastructure open
to all operators
Long term infrastructure
investment not short term revenue
Vision of high speed, high capacity
wireless networks
Economic growth driven by the
best connectivity
Aberdeen: A wireless concession with
long term vision

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Small cells connected by fibre enable contiguous high speed, high
capacity and ultra low latency coverage in the city centre

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Multi-operator antenna system deployed
on existing street assets

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Policy has a major role to play in
unlocking more investment into this
kind in 5G ready infrastructure
• Public interventions should seek
to encourage a greater proportion
of neutral host infrastructure
• Concessions in cities and on rail
and road networks, to open up
access to assets, should focus on
unlocking long term
infrastructure not short term
revenue
Neutral host infrastructure drives
greater levels of connectivity
• Attracts long term low cost capital
• Invests in future proof high
capacity infrastructure
• Offers open access to all mobile
and other wireless networks
• Lowers costs through sharing