Momentum is building rapidly behind intelligent surfaces to boost coverage and capacity both indoors and out, with standards body ETSI latest to chip in with a report presenting potential use cases and deployment scenarios for operators. This comes just a week after Wireless Watch reported how China’s ZTE had just teamed up with Thailand’s largest mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) to demonstrate use of a dynamic reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a mmWave trial. We argued that accelerating interest and activity meant that reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) would be deployed sooner than the assumed launch of 6G around the end of a decade. ETSI rather understates the potential as just one “of the use cases being floated for potential…