Energy decides the site.
Cellular radios engineered around energy, for towers that already stand and towers that were never built.
Energy decides which towers get built, and what every tower earns.
Every cell site comes down to one number: what it costs against what it earns. Energy is the largest cost an operator can meaningfully influence, and the radio is the largest draw on the energy.
For some sites, the business case fails before anyone breaks ground, which is why around 300 million people live where there is no mobile broadband at all. The site that would serve them loses money, so no one builds it. Off-grid, where energy can reach 60% of operating cost, the problem is harshest.
For the towers already standing, the energy cost arrives as a monthly bill that climbs with traffic and does not go down. One operator puts 15% to 50% of its sites below break-even. The rest would simply earn more.
Move the energy line and both change: what a network can afford to build, and what it earns on everything it already owns.
Efficiency designed in, not layered on.
Most attempts at this problem start with software: smarter scheduling, deeper sleep states, better tuning of a platform that was drawn for somewhere else. That helps at the margins. It cannot change what the hardware spends before the software begins optimization.
So we started further back, asking what carrying traffic actually requires from the radio and how much of the existing power draw comes from existing products. The efficiency lives in the amplifier path and the power architecture. That is what makes it designed in rather than layered on, and why tuning an existing platform only gets you so far.
Roughly three times lower radio power draw, and about half the total energy at the site.
Everything gets smaller.
Draw less at the radio and everything sized around it gets smaller: fewer panels, a smaller battery, no generator, a lighter structure to carry it all. Where the power comes off the grid, the same reduction shows up in a lower energy bill.
It mounts where your radios mount.
Our Smart Network Tower Radio is a dual-mode 2G/4G macro unit for 1800 MHz, in a sealed, passively cooled enclosure. Standard mounts, standard interfaces, and no assumptions about what carries your backhaul.
Far enough to show you.
Our first customer field trial is in Côte d'Ivoire, targeted for the first half of 2027, with the trial unit complete by the end of this year. That is when the modeled numbers on this site become measured ones.
The architecture, the interfaces, and the RAN profile are locked. TalkingHeads Wireless was founded in 2020, is based in Boston, and designs and manufactures through North American partners.
What won’t you claim?
That the architecture is revolutionary. That a number is measured when it is modeled. That integration is effortless. That you should buy this for sustainability. Lower energy is our mechanism, not our brand, and the ESG figures are a side effect we are happy to document.
Bring us your hardest site.
The ones you run at a loss because pulling them would cost you subscribers. The ones that never made it out of planning. If you have sites where the business case keeps failing on power, that is the conversation we want. We will walk you through the architecture, the evidence as it stands today, and exactly what a side-by-side trial on your network would involve, limitations included.