Good-bye DAS, hello HetNet: Consortium discusses name change

Youtube interviews tell the tale.

In the first video below conducted by RCR Wireless News, Allen Dixon, HetNet Forum chairman, explains the answer to the question, "What's behind the name change [from, formerly, the DAS Forum]? In a follow-up video, also below, Prysmian's national sales manager, John Lavalette, weighs in on the consortium's re-branding from a cabling industry perspective.

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