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NextG is a carrier's carrier. The advantage to the wireless service providers is that NextG is able to build an SCS system that targets a neighborhood, to bring new services or to improve the performance of existing services. For example, a neighborhood can have good service for voice phone calls, but needs an SCS system to deliver the data-intensive services demanded by smartphones. The operator delivers the service, NextG's SCS transports that service optically over fiber to the utility pole for the carrier, where the optical signal is converted to the service provider's licensed radio frequency signal, as in the Figure.
In each state where it operates NextG is registered as a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), holds a CPCN (Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity) or is registered in a similar capacity to build fiber-fed SCS systems for wireless operators directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries.
NextG's status in each state permits it to install SCS networks in the public way e.g., on utility poles. NextG also contracts with municipalities so it can install equipment on street light poles, traffic light poles and bury conduit under city streets. Other agreements permit NextG to share buried conduit with other utilities.
NextG's value to wireless service providers is that it designs the network, secures construction permits, installs new fiber, constructs poles when needed, and performs many other tasks associated with new deployments, then it monitors and maintains the network for many years.
NextG's fiber connects multiple SCS sites to a hub, backhauls traffic to the Internet cloud or PSTN, provides Fiber to the Cell from macrocell sites to an aggregation or switching center, and serves high concentrations of SCS sites in football stadiums and similar indoor and outdoor venues, as illustrated in the Figure.
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