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The number of deployed small cells globally will reach 92 million by 2016 — an eightfoldnincrease from the 10.8 million small cells deployed today, the Small Cell Forum said Tuesday in anreport. Femtocells will continue to lead other small cell types in 2016 with an 86 percent share ofnthe market. Public access models will only make up 4 percent of all units at that time, but willndominate in terms of revenue — they will have a market value of $16.2 billion, 73 percent of thenpredicted $22 billion value of the entire small cell market, the Small Cell Forum said. Carriers arenalready providing evidence of the public access models’ traction in the marketplace. AT&T plans tondeploy 40,000 units by the end of 2016; Vodafone plans to deploy tri-mode (3G, 4G and Wi-Fi)nunits by March, while Verizon Wireless plans to deploy units in the second half of the year, SmallnCell Forum said. “Public access small cells in busy urban areas are set to be one of the defining mobilennetwork trends in the coming years,” said Dimitris Mavrakis, the report’s author and a principalnanalyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, in a Small Cell Forum news release. “While operators won'tnbe deploying them in the same numbers as femtocells, they are arguably their best tool for bringingnmassive extra capacity to their mobile networks. ... All eyes will be on the deployments taking placenin the coming months in order to establish best practice for the many more that will follow over thennext few years” (http://bit.ly/XzhSBi).