Carriers’ efforts to keep mobile devices well-connected can go to naught once users walk into a hotel or office building, if the signals can’t get in. Now someone else can solve that problem, according to Ruckus Wireless.

The enterprise Wi-Fi company wants to become an LTE network vendor, supplying gear for indoor networks that could belong to a service provider, an enterprise or a building owner. Trials will start this year, and if the idea catches on it may go big in 2018, Ruckus Chief Operating Officer Dan Rabinovitsj says. On Thursday the company shared some details about the system, called OpenG, after Rabinovitsj outlined the idea in an interview last month. It will demonstrate OpenG with Qualcomm at Mobile World Congress next week.

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