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Cannes, France, 07 September 2023 – CELLSMART, the cellular intelligence division of SmartCIC, has launched its global “Drive” initiative to test drive the world’s cellular networks and capture local intelligence about 5G performance. The findings will provide enterprises with insights into the best connectivity options in a given area and support use cases for adopting Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The CELLSMART car will be kicking off its maiden voyage in Cannes, France then looping through major cities in Spain and France in September 2023.

CELLSMART has equipped cars with bespoke testing software, SIMs, and routers to test local wireless network performance across Europe, North America, and a growing number of destinations across the globe. Each car will capture 4G and 5G upload and download speeds and latency across key locations with test-by-test granularity. CELLSMART’s bespoke testing software enables each car to run up to one test every 60 seconds and have that data mapped and logged in near real-time in a central database.

“The CELLSMART Drive is bringing speed and agility to how cellular networks are tested at a granular level. Almost anywhere in the world, we can deploy our testing car and capture 5G performance data in the field and across multiple networks. This empowers service providers and enterprises to develop use cases for 5G and ensures they are using the highest performing cellular networks in the areas they operate,” said Toby Forman, CEO at SmartCIC. “We’re investing in the ‘Drive’ because it will benefit the entire industry and grow FWA as a product category.”

The car will be driven by CELLSMART employees and its partners with cellular intelligence, photos and commentary captured and shared on LinkedIn.

Drive 2023 – Itinerary

• September 2023: Spain and France Route
• October 2023: US Route 1 – Eastern Seaboard
• November 2023: US Route 2 – West Coast ending in Phoenix, Arizona

“We’ve invited our team members and partners to get involved and be part of test driving cellular networks across the globe. It’s an opportunity to see exactly why cellular intelligence is so important for the growth of our industry and show that we’re committed to providing precise insights into 5G performance,” said Forman. “The team that has put this initiative together has been amazing. They have innovated with our bespoke testing software, the development of the equipment, and making ‘Drive’ really come alive. It’s exciting and we’re only at the beginning of our journey.”

The “Drive” initiative was launched after the success of the CELLSMART Global Cellular Performance Survey, which used SmartCIC’s global network of 25,000 engineers in 106 countries to test cellular performance on the ground around the world. The most recent survey revealed that Oslo, Norway led Europe with a maximum 5G download speed of 1.12 Gbps. The data showed that 5G FWA has emerged as a viable alternative to fibre networks and LEO satellite solutions for enterprise access. CELLSMART has been testing, mapping, and capturing local intelligence about wireless network performance across the globe since March 2022.

Follow SmartCIC on LinkedIn to get updates on where the car is day-to-day and see the insights we’re capturing here: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cellsmartsolutions/

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About CELLSMART

CELLSMART is powered by SmartCIC and has been designed to enable enterprise customers to rapidly roll out cellular solutions and benefit from new intelligence-driven deployments. It provides the end-to-end planning, network selection, routing and backhaul solutions, equipment deployment, management, monitoring and support for enterprise fixed wireless networks.

CELLSMART’s solutions are built using leading technology partners and supported by over 25,000 engineers in 200 countries around the world.

www.cellsmart.io

For further information on CELLSMART or SmartCIC, please contact:
arwen@ilexcontent.com

Cannes, France, 30 May 2023 - CELLSMART, the cellular intelligence division of SmartCIC, has launched the results of its latest cellular performance testing, which show that European cellular networks have emerged as a viable alternative to broadband and Low Orbit Satellites (LEO) when connecting the last mile. Test results show Norway leading Europe with maximum 5G download speeds indoors of 1.12 Gbps. Spain had the top results for maximum 5G download speeds outdoors with 1.11 Gbps.

CELLSMART notes that cellular networks across Europe are delivering speeds that equal or exceed what is available on broadband or LEO satellites. Tests run by CELLSMART show that 5G upload and download speeds in both metro and remote areas are offering the flexibility of cellular combined with enterprise-grade network performance. This is ideal for supporting fixed wireless access (FWA) use cases across Europe.

Oslo, Norway is the leading city for 5G download speeds in Europe with 1.12 Gbps. Cerdanyola del Vallès and Bilbao in Spain take second and third spots with speeds of 1.11 Gbps and 1.07 Gbps respectively. Germany’s Munich (1.03 Gbps) ranked fourth and Austria’s Vienna (921.1) in fifth. As a result, FWA is proven to be helping enterprise and service providers to be more agile and able to monetise investments in SDWAN overlay services.

MAXIMUM DOWNLOAD SPEEDS – OUTDOOR (Mbps)

1. Spain – 1114.00
2. Germany – 1035.00
3. Austria – 921.10
4. France – 803.96
5. Norway – 789.00

MAXIMUM DOWNLOAD SPEEDS – INDOOR (Mbps)

1. Norway – 1124.00
2. Spain – 1075.00
3. Germany – 929.10
4. France – 898.00
5. Great Britain – 602.00

“Europe is ready for fixed wireless access. Our test results show that 5G is beginning to mature into a justifiable investment that is ready to serve as an alternative to wired broadband and LEO’s in multiple countries throughout Europe. With performance rates that rival those of broadband and LEO, cellular should be considered when connecting enterprise locations. It’s a viable option,” said Toby Forman, CEO at SmartCIC. “It’s crucial to remember that these figures aren’t estimates or taken from a lab. They are real, on-the-ground 5G performance levels, straight from the field.”

Telemoval in Portugal continues to top the rankings with 545.38 Mbps average download speeds maintaining its download position since the CELLSMART Global Cellular Performance Survey in Q1 2023. It has a 131% greater average speed than 10th placed Orange FR NRNSA in Germany, showing how variable performance levels can be. Spain’s Webbing ranks second for download speeds with an average of 472.20 Mbps.

The test results show the leading average upload speeds are heavily saturated by Spain with Webbing, Finetworks and Orange France taking the top three spots with speeds of 113.25, 84.58 and 65.08 respectively.

TOP 5 CARRIERS – AVERAGE DOWNLOAD ALL NETWORKS (Mbps)

Telemovel Portugal 545.38
Webbing Spain 472.2
Orange FR NRNSA France 380.05
Telia Norway 52.086
Yettel Serbia 51.732

“CELLSMART’s data is providing cellular intelligence that we use to advise our clients and help them to make informed decisions about local connectivity options across a global footprint. We’re helping our partners to capture the billion-dollar opportunity in fixed wireless access,” said Forman. “We will be launching hyper-local testing initiatives across Spain and France in the near future. The results from these tests will give service providers and enterprises granular insights into the availability of high-performance cellular networking. We’re driving the future of fixed wireless access.”

The latest test results in Europe collected data from 13,170 network speed tests conducted in 29 countries and 12,781 unique locations between 6th April 2023 and 14th April 2023. The survey provides a snapshot of actual performance across cellular technologies across the globe. CELLSMART uses the data it collects in its planning, network selection and service development and monitoring for fixed wireless enterprise customers.

About CELLSMART

CELLSMART is powered by SmartCIC and has been designed to enable enterprise customers to rapidly roll out cellular solutions and benefit from new intelligence-driven deployments. It provides the end-to-end planning, network selection, routing and backhaul solutions, equipment deployment, management, monitoring and support for enterprise fixed wireless networks.

CELLSMART’s solutions are built using leading technology partners and supported by over 25,000 engineers in 200 countries around the world.

www.cellsmart.io

For further information on CELLSMART or SmartCIC, please contact:
arwen@ilexcontent.com

Cannes, France, 15 May 2023 – SmartCIC, a global managed service provider, has appointed industry veteran Chris Harper as a Strategic Board Advisor as it ramps up its global sales efforts. The appointment enables SmartCIC to land and expand in new markets, engage a growing international customer base and drive new momentum in its global networking, field services, fixed wireless access, and managed services. It follows a record-breaking year for SmartCIC’s customer acquisitions and revenue growth.

Chris Harper is an industry veteran with long history of building successful teams and taking them to the next level. He started in the 1990s building NEC’s ventures into Eastern Europe and Sub Sahara Africa, then joined Iaxis at is inception. He was headhunted to Sprint where he grew the team and revenue from zero to staff in every major country in the world and was responsible for a revenue stream of $1.3 Billion USD at its peak.

From there Harper invested in and managed several ventures that he still sits on the boards of. More recently he helped bring Bell Canada to Europe and in his last role Harper brought year on year double digit growth to Neterra as its Chief Commercial Officer.

“The appointment of Chris is part of a long-term strategy to enable more organisations to experience SmartCIC and our excellence in service delivery. Chris brings a proven track record of accelerating growth and building sales organisations that are focused on end-to-end customer experience,” said Toby Forman, CEO at SmartCIC. “We’re getting real resonance from the message we’re delivering in the market and the timing is right to engage more organisations and help them to deliver digital infrastructure and work smarter.”

SmartCIC delivers end-to-end networking solutions that combine local insights, intelligence, and expertise with a diversity of global talent and skills. It has more than 25,000 engineers delivering solutions on-the-ground and end-to-end across more than 200 countries.

“SmartCIC is one of the most exciting businesses in international telecoms. It is taking a customer-centric and intelligence-driven approach to developing networking solutions and not just selling products. It can deliver solutions from the enterprise endpoint to the cloud with a consistent experience end-to-end. In a market where everyone wants to get close to the enterprise, SmartCIC is ready to deploy connectivity that is reliable, robust and supported by experts in enterprise networking. I’m excited to join the team and build this business in the long-term,” said Chris Harper, Strategic Board Advisor at SmartCIC.

SmartCIC has been steadily growing its team over the last 12 months. Catherine Hemingray was appointed its Sales Director in October 2022 with Mario Bernal joining SmartCIC as Senior Account Manager from Expereo in November 2022.

About SmartCIC

Headquartered in France and with offices and facilities in 13 countries, SmartCIC delivers flexible and agile connectivity and field services solutions to international carriers and global enterprise in over 120 countries. Naturally a multi-lingual business the team currently speak 17 different languages in its day-day operations with customers and partners.

SmartCIC’s core values of flexibility and agility are driven by the team’s approach to solution orientated design. SmartCIC’s strategy is to deliver fully flexible solutions that meet the needs of demanding and evolving environments.

We help customers work smarter to achieve their objectives.

www.smartcic.com

25, April 2023 – SmartCIC, a global managed service provider, has launched its logistics offering for global service providers to enable the deployment of digital infrastructure in new markets by shipping and delivering hardware internationally. In Q1 2023, SmartCIC shipped over 1,300 items to 43 different countries around the world from its Barcelona warehouse alone. The solution enables service provider customers to meet deadlines, avoid costly delays and remove the complexity and risk of delivering hardware to global destinations.

SmartCIC’s team of hardware experts manage the full distribution preparation funnel from start to finish, working with local partners in-country to ensure rapid deployment takes place where it’s needed most. It is providing comprehensive end-to-end delivery, installation, and management of digital infrastructure across a global footprint.

“We manage some of the most complex networking challenges which includes the delivery of hardware and equipment around the world. We have a proven track record of ensuring items are delivered on time, every time, to enable our customers to rapidly monetise solutions internationally,” said Toby Forman, CEO at SmartCIC. “When delivering hardware to global destinations, carriers risk having it confiscated and destroyed. Millions of dollars can be lost due to deployment delays and even contract losses. When you choose SmartCIC, we guarantee that your hardware will get to where it needs to go so that carriers can roll out equipment in new markets seamlessly and serve booming enterprise demand.”

The managed logistics solution covers the entire shipment process end-to-end. This includes providing intelligence on customers and importation requirements for target countries, detailed pricing and timings, equipment reception at any of SmartCIC’s regional logistics centres, repackaging, processing and export, management and tracking of deliveries and equipment reception and forwarding to customer location, engineer location or FMRIB Software Libraries (FSL’s) for further dispersed distribution.

“There’s a growing demand for the service because we’re taking the pain away from another piece of the puzzle in digital infrastructure. There’s an opportunity for global service providers to benefit from new levels of agility and flexibility with SmartCIC as a logistics partner. We match experts in digital infrastructure with local knowledge to provide an ecosystem of solutions and capabilities across LATAM, Africa, Asia and Europe for our customers. Where there’s a challenge, we always find a solution,” said Forman.

SmartCIC has regional logistics centres in Barcelona, Spain, Miami, USA, Costa Messa, USA, Sao Paolo, LATAM, Melbourne, Australia and Shanghai, China. The managed logistics solution adds to SmartCIC’s rich portfolio of services which include broadband, direct internet access (DIA), 4G/5G, large capacities and wave technologies as well as SLA-backed field services solutions from smart hands to fully certified professionals.

About SmartCIC

Headquartered in France and with offices and facilities in 13 countries, SmartCIC delivers flexible and agile connectivity and field services solutions to international carriers and global enterprise in over 120 countries. Naturally a multi-lingual business the team currently speak 17 different languages in its day-day operations with customers and partners.

SmartCIC’s core values of flexibility and agility are driven by the team’s approach to solution orientated design. SmartCIC’s strategy is to deliver fully flexible solutions that meet the needs of demanding and evolving environments.

We help customers work smarter to achieve their objectives.

www.smartcic.com