It’s always a clear sign that a sector is growing up, when its signature events move out of the relative cosiness of hotel-based conference suites and into the more soulless, but considerably larger, purpose-built venues. The Small Cells World Summit (SCWS) made that transition this year, with the largest event in this market taking place at London’s Excel exhibition centre, collocated with related conferences about Carrier WiFi and small cell backhaul. In many ways, the growing pains of a new kind of venue ‘ greater noise challenges, fewer bars and soft seats ‘ mirrored those of an industry which has been engaged in a battle for the mass scale which is essential to its economics. Small cells, whether for the…