The need for fewer cell sites improves the economics of extending mobile broadband coverage further into rural and remote areas, as well as enabling coverage to be extended to rural areas more quickly.
Better indoor coverage
In the UK, Ofcom found that 3G networks at 900MHz deliver a minimum of 8 Mbps to 70% of indoor locations, whereas 3G at 2.1GHz delivers the same data rate to only 45% of indoor locations.