Indoor mobile coverage and connectivity in modern urban buildings are a great challenge due to very limited penetration of outdoor signals into the buildings and with 5G it will be even more challenging than with 4G. In today’s digitalized society, building owners, tenants and visitors need excellent connectivity wherever they are, which is mostly indoors, and they need this irrespective of which mobile operator they have a subscription with. This is where Proptivity comes in. We offer gigabit 5G connectivity in buildings without multiple installations and wasted energy consumption. We are very happy to now have a strong player as OneCo as a strategic delivery partner.

In a strategic partnership with Proptivity we are taking another step forward and take part in the implementation of high-performance mobile coverage in a market where it is well-known that poor indoor coverage creates challenges for property owners and tenants. OneCo has extensive experience in the telecom market, and in the deployment of indoor mobile coverage. We contribute to this partnership with skilled engineers, project managers, and installers who handle the planning, installation, and maintenance of the systems. We are looking forward to cooperating with Proptivity in the years to come.

Following the pandemic, we are seeing an increasing need among property owners and tenants to have stable and predictable indoor mobile services from multiple providers. A neutral infrastructure that promotes competition and innovation while also reducing environmental footprint is a no-brainer for us.

Sweden is lagging behind in 5G and property owners and operators must cooperate to secure good mobile services indoors. 5G signals stop in walls and without an indoor network there will be no good 5G service. In Sweden, since the 90s, we have used passive indoor systems, these are intended to be discontinued in Norway and I cannot imagine that we in Sweden shouldn’t have leading technology, especially when it is developed by Ericsson. It is as if we would only continue with vinyl records in Sweden despite there being Spotify. Big investments are needed to catch up and with our cost- and resource effective shared networks, any 5G device, from phones, computers or video cameras to future applications, can be used everywhere in the building.

We see 5G as a key innovation platform for our tenants and for our own continued digitalization. It will create many opportunities that we cannot even see today and it’s important that we start to develop our capabilities now. We have chosen to work with Proptivity as they offer a strong 5G solution, together with Ericsson, that meets our needs from a technical perspective, as well as a simple business model that we believe in.

This milestone with Proptivity using Ericsson’s indoor 5G network solution marks a shift towards a new business model in the indoor space, with neutral hosts and enterprises increasingly taking the helm when it comes to indoor 5G deployments. This development underlines the growing demand for high-performing indoor 5G inside, as well as outdoors.