Mobile giant, Vodafone has announced that it will take part in the upcoming Small Cells World Summit happening in London from 26-28 June, as Lead Operator.

"We are pleased to once again confirm Vodafone's participation in the Small Cells World Summit as one of the market leading mobile network operators, dedicated to furthering small cell development" says event director Alejandro Pinero. "Following their launch of the Vodafone SureSignal service at the Femtocells (News - Alert) World Summit 2009, Vodafone has always been a key participant in the femtocell, and now small cell series of events."

The summit is attended by more than 50 operators who have already trialed or deployed femtocells. The small cell is expected to soon become an essential part of every operator's LTE (News - Alert) network plan, and Small Cells World Summit opens up opportunities for business to meet a qualified audience of senior level influencers and buyers of small cell technology.

According to Small Cell Forum chairman, Simon Saunders (News - Alert) all operators are realizing it is just a matter of time before they will need to install small cells in busy metro environments to ensure their networks can economically support traffic growth.

"Future mobile networks will fundamentally rely on both Wi-Fi and small cells to carry the continuing growth in mobile broadband traffic: it's not either or," says Professor Simon Saunders.

Other giants taking part in the event include Telecom Italia, Sunrise, SoftBank, Verizon (News - Alert), SK telecom, Orange, T-Mobile, and Everything Everywhere. Other global technology giants who will share their latest solutions are Cisco, Qualcomm, Radisys, Intel, Ubiquisys, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom, ip.access, Ablaze Wireless and Texas Instruments (News - Alert), to name a few.