5G for FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar

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From the news:

More than 8,466 multi-beam antennas connect over 500km of RF cables and over 202km of fibre optic, covering the eight stadiums’ indoor Mobile 4G and 5G network. The areas surrounding the stadiums are covered with 41 smart pole ODAS solutions and more than 45 outdoor Macro full-fledge capacity sites. Mobile network services with 5,000+ cells, TETRA services and Wi-Fi backbone will offer state-of-the-art 5G, 4G, 3G and 2G technologies at all eight stadiums.

8.466 multi beam antennas in 8 stadium Qatar!

Anyone has idea: what is this kind of antenna? Qatar has mmWave?

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Interesting info!

Since there’s not many commercial mmWave deployment.

Or this refer to massive-MIMO antenna?

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~ 1,000 antenna in a stadium. I think it is indoor antenna, not macro.

But here say multi-beam antenna.