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Top Blog Posts of 2022
The 3G4G Blog is our most popular blog, running for over 15 years with nearly 15 million views. With 2022 coming to an end, here are the top 10 most viewed posts from 2022. These posts were not...
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How Many People are Still Unconnected in 2023 and Why?
I hear in many presentations that half the world is still unconnected so we need a solution XYZ. In this post I will explore how many people are really unconnected and why.GSMA produces an annual...
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Authentication and Key Management for Applications (AKMA) based on 3GPP...
3GPP Release 17 introduced a new feature called AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications), the goal of which is to enable the authentication and generation of application keys based on...
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ATIS Webinar on "3GPP Release 18 Overview: A World of 5G-Advanced"
Yesterday, ATIS, one of the seven 3GPP Organizational Partner (OP), delivered on online webinar on 3GPP Release 18 Overview: The World of 5G-Advanced. A summary of the webinar according to ATIS as...
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Accelerating O-RAN Adoption Through Open Source
Telecom Infra Project's Fyuz 2022 conference took place in Madrid from 25 to 27 October 2022. It provided a unique experience by combining technology with gastronomy to stir the attendee’s imagination....
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How many Cell Sites and Base Stations Worldwide?
I wrote a blog post on this topic nearly three years back on the Operator Watch Blog here. That post is very handy as every few months someone or other asks me about this number. Here is a slightly...
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ETSI's Summit on Sustainability: ICT Standards for a Greener World
The ETSI Summit on Sustainability - How ICT developments and standards can enable sustainability and have a positive impact on society, took place on 30 March 2023 and focused on the key role of the...
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Qualcomm Webinar on 'Realizing mission-critical industrial automation with 5G'
Private 5G networks have immense potential to transform industries by improving flexibility within the shop floor of the industries. Industrial 5G networks hold the promise to transform...
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Top 10 New (2022) Security Standards That You Need to Know About!
I had been meaning to add this session to the blog for a while. Some security researchers may find these useful. At RSA Conference 2022, Bret Jordan, CTO, Emerging Technologies, Broadcom and Kirsty...
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New 5G NTN Spectrum Bands in FR1 and FR2
Release-17 includes two new FR1 bands for NTN; n255 (a.k.a. NTN 1.6GHz) and n256 (a.k.a. NTN 2GHz). The picture is from a slide in Rohde & Schwarz presentation available here. Quoting from an...
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3GPP TSG RAN and TSG SA Release-19 Workshop Summary
3GPP recently announced the milestone of reaching 100th plenaries of the three Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) in 3GPP which took place in Taipei last week. If you are unsure what TSGs are, we...
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Small Data Transmission (SDT) in LTE and 5G NR
One of the features that was introduced part of 5G NR 3GPP Release 17 is known as Small Data Transmission (SDT). When small amount of data, in case of an IoT device, needs to be sent, there is no need...
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Tutorial: A Quick Introduction to 3GPP
We recently made a beginners tutorial explaining the need for The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), its working, structure and provides useful pointers to explore further. The video and slides...
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Prof. Ted Rappaport Keynote at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023 on 'Looking Towards the...
Prof. Ted Rappaport has featured a few times in our blog posts (see here and here). Today we look at his recent keynote at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023 on the topic 'Looking Towards the 6G Era - What...
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Private Networks Introductory Series
Private Networks has been a hot topic for a while now. We made a technical introductory video which has over 13K views while its slides have over 25K views. The Private Networks blog that officially...
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Presentations from 2nd IEEE Open RAN Summit
The second IEEE SA (Standards Association) Open RAN summit, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, took place on 9-10 Aug 2023. It covered the topics related to the standardization...
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Mobile Network Architecture: How did we get here & where should we go?
Lorenzo Casaccia, Vice President of Technical Standards, IP Qualcomm Europe, Inc. has been with Qualcomm since 2000. During that time he's had a variety of roles related to wireless communication,...
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Presentations from ETSI Security Conference 2023
It's been a while since I wrote about the ETSI Security Conference, which was known as ETSI Security week once upon a time. This year, ETSI’s annual flagship event on Cyber Security took place...
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AI/ML and Other ICT Industry Trends in the coming decades
At the Brooklyn 6G Summit (B6GS) 2023, top tier economist Dr. Jeff Shen from BlackRock, presented a talk from the industry perspective of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and investment. Jeff Shen, PhD,...
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6G Global - Videos & Presentations from Mobile Korea 2023
5G Forum, South Korea organises Mobile Korea conference every year. Mobile Korea 2023 had two conferences within it, '6G Global', looking at 'Beyond Connectivity and New Possibilities', and '5G...
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Top 10 Blog Posts and Top 5 Videos for 2023
The 3G4G Blog is our most popular blog, running for over 16 years with over 15.5 million views. With 2023 coming to an end, here are the top 10 most viewed posts from 2023 as well as top 5 most viewed...
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Technological Complexification and The Return of Magic
I have been meaning to share this video/presentation by Patrick Scannell for quite some time now. Pat Scannell is a technology and telecom industry consultant who is a world leader on 5G and the...
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UE Assistance Information in LTE and 5G
I have been asked about the UE Assistance Information (UAI) RRC message a few times before. Generally I have always pointed people back to the LTE/5G specifications but here is a concise video that the...
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Resilient Timing for Critical National Infrastructure
Critical infrastructure requires precise timing to operate. This reliance makes the infrastructure vulnerable to disruptions in timing that can be either intentional or unintentional. Intentional...
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Research Challenges for the Advancement of Vehicular Networking
It's been a while since we covered V2X as a topic on this blog. If you are not well versed with CAVs and V2X, we recommend you to watch our tutorials on the 3G4G page here.The networking channel hosted...
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