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Netherland case study description. 5.3.2.1 Challenges in dense deployment of small cells The city of Amsterdam is the financial and cultural capital of Netherlands. Almost one-in-ten of the inhabitants of Netherland reside in the urban Amsterdam area. As in all major European city, there is a need to densify the mobile networks of the city to accommodate the increasing traffic volumes and provide a broadband connectivity platform for initiatives, such as, Amsterdam Smart City45. At the same time, the city strives to become one of the “greenest,” most sustainable cities in Europe while continuing to attract businesses and maintain economic growth. Amsterdam is one of the oldest continuously inhabited European cities, renowned architectural heritage and some historical attractions (e.g. the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam) included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Therefore, network densification projects in Amsterdam should take particular care of city’s architectural, environmental and historical considerations. 5.3.2.2 Description of intervention to facilitate dense small cell deployments In the year 2014, Vodafone (one of the top two MNOs in Netherlands by market share), embarked on a pilot project to deploy 200 small cells in Amsterdam. For this project, Vodafone collaborated with JCDecaux46, the global leading company for outdoor advertisements. JCDecaux has over 100,000 street furniture assets across the markets that Vodafone operates, including Netherlands. In these locations, JCDecaux would already have existing agreements with the local authorities, with typical contracts of 10-20 years already in place. By leveraging these existing permits, Vodafone and other operators are able to significantly speed up their small cell rollouts. For the pilot project JCDecaux leveraged bus shelters and roadside advertising panels (which it uses to deploy adverts) as sites for concealed installation of the Vodafone small cells (see Figure 41). Figure 41 Small cell equipment concealment in bus shelters and roadside advertising panels [Merlin2017] The street furniture used by JCDecaux also includes facilities for powering the small cells and terminating fibers that were laid on the street (see Figure 42), thus eliminating or reducing the need to additional civil works and providing future-proofed high-speed backhauling47 capable of supporting upgrades to 5G. The small cell project provided some other significant benefits, including: 45 xxxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/ 46 xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/pre...