A UK neutral host and mobile infrastructure company that builds shared small-cell networks in buildings and city streets so people get better mobile signal.
Freshwave is a UK company that helps mobile signal reach the places people use their phones. Its work is mainly small cells, which are small boxes that improve coverage and speed, placed in office buildings, on lampposts and in busy city streets. As a "neutral host", it builds the equipment so that several phone operators can share it instead of each putting up their own. The company has said it aims to reimagine the economics and practicalities of digital infrastructure and to bring mobile operators, local government and property owners together.
The Freshwave Group name was announced in January 2020, when companies it had gathered, StrattoOpencell, iWireless Solutions and Spyder Facilities, were brought under one brand. Between them they covered neutral host small cells, wireless engineering and mast and rooftop sites. It was led by chief executive Simon Frumkin, who had held senior roles at EE, Orange and T-Mobile and had been involved in the shared EE and Three network, MBNL, and its chair was Graham Payne. Early customers named included Workspace Group, central London councils and the Docklands area.
More recent work includes a City of London pilot, with EE as the first operator, and a later multi-operator pilot in the City that EE, Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone signed up to. It has also promoted an in-building service called Omni Network. These are examples of what the company does, and the evidence for each comes from trade press rather than from the company's own pages.
The articles we read describe a UK-focused business working in London, but do not give a head office town or number of staff, so we have not claimed a specific one. The company's culture is also not described in the pages we could read, so we are not going to guess at it. A neutral host business of this size has people who design the networks, survey buildings and streets, build and install the equipment, deal with councils and landlords, and work with each phone operator.
A job here could be a radio engineer, a network planner, a site surveyor, a project manager, a software or data specialist, or someone in sales who explains to a landlord why their building needs a better signal. If you are interested in cities, buildings and technology, it combines all three. Subjects like physics, geography, maths and computing help, and the company's own website is the place to check for roles.
Website: www.freshwave.com
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