Global connectivity services provider CommScope Holding has acquired two businesses of United Kingdom-based Alifabs Group to expand metro cell and small cell services and to provide additional support for European wireless operators as LTE network deployments accelerate, Telecompaper.com reported on July 1, 2014.

CommScope has acquired the Alifabs Cabinets & Ancillaries unit in Yorkshire, England, which designs, manufactures and supplies enclosures for the UK telecommunications, utility and energy markets, and the Alifabs Design & Construction business in Guildford, England, a supplier of a full range of cellular monopoles, smaller streetworks towers and tower services in the UK. As a result of the acquisition, CommScope will be able to leverage Alifabs\' capabilities supporting metro cell and small cell site acquisition and power and energy requirements as wireless operators throughout Europe transition to LTE networks.