Sprint is exploring a major shift in the way wireless service is delivered as it works to upgrade its network while implementing cost cuts throughout the company. One of the biggest costs associated with small cell deployments is backhaul, the connection that brings mobile network traffic from the cell sites back to the core network. Sprint wants to reduce this cost for a number of sites by using wireless backhaul.
“Backhaul is really very much a function of the way we want to engineer the network,” CFO Tarek Robbiati said recently at Deutsche Bank’s Media, Internet and Telecom conference.
