Telecom equipment and software major Ericsson today announced its small cell deal with Telstra, a leading communications company in Australia.

Telstra aims to enhance indoor and outdoor mobile coverage by deploying indoor and outdoor small cells in its 4G LTE network.

Ericsson will be supplying Radio Dot System and Pico Cell RBS 6402 in a bid to increase coverage and enhance user experience in Telstra’s 4G LTE network, enabling Telstra to continue providing a high quality and reliable mobile broadband service to its customers.

“The outdoor small cell deployment and indoor small cell solutions are the latest step in our ongoing strategic partnership with Ericsson. Telstra has already deployed small cells in 50 rural towns across Australia. The result has been greater coverage and improved broadband experience for residents and business in these towns,” said Mike Wright, group managing director of Networks in Telstra Operations.

Telstra aims to increase the small cell rollout across Australia. Telstra want to deliver better indoor coverage for individual customers in office buildings and enterprise customers in shopping centers and large indoor venues.

“Small cells improve performance through frequency reuse, increasing both network data capacity and throughput without the need to split the available spectrum. Small cells provide transparency in the network, ensuring that Voice over LTE, Voice over WiFi and video calls work in the network for a consistent user experience,” said Thomas Noren, head of Product Area Network Products, Ericsson.

Ericsson Mobility Report says data traffic per smartphone will grow from 1.9 Gigabytes per month in 2016 to 11 Gigabytes per month in 2022. Improvement in indoor coverage where about 70 percent of data traffic is generated, is important for telecom network operators.