The networks people speak well of are the ones they never think about. That is a design outcome, and most of it is decided before anyone opens a catalogue.
Coverage and capacity are different problems, and only coverage appears on a heat map. A lecture hall can show four bars on every phone and still fail, because once the room fills everyone in it is sharing one radio. Indian buildings sharpen the difference: RCC slabs and brick partitions absorb far more signal than the drywall that global seat standards assume.
The answer is usually placement, which is why a measured design sometimes returns a smaller number than the one budgeted for. Fewer radios in the right positions beat more in the wrong ones, and a design that names why each one sits where it does is one that can still be defended when somebody asks in year three.
Questions Worth Taking Forward
- Where does the network get noticed today, and by whom?
- Is this a coverage problem, a capacity problem, or a building problem?
- What did the construction do to the original assumptions?
- What will still hold after the next fit-out?