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Examples of 5G Use Cases & Applications
I recently did another 5G training for CW (Cambridge Wireless) & UK5G. One of the sections in that was about Use Cases. A very common questions that people ask is what can 5G do that 4G can't. The...
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China Telecom: An examination of the current industrial trends and an outlook...
Last month I posted about the slides and videos from 6G Wireless Summit. Some of the videos were added later on. The presentation by Dr. Qi Bi, President of China Telecom Technology Innovation Center...
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When will 2G & 3G be switched off now that 5G is here?
I wrote this blog post '2G / 3G Switch Off: A Tale of Two Worlds' back in Oct 2017. Since then I have continued to see the same trend in 2G/3G shutdown announcements. Based on that post and also taking...
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VoLTE Hacking
The 10th Annual HITB Security Conference took place from the 6th till the 10th of May 2019 in The Netherlands. The theme for the conference this year is 'The Hacks of Future Past'. One of the...
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Presentations on Macro Cells and Millimetre-wave Technology from recent CW...
CW (Cambridge Wireless) held a couple of very interesting events from 2 very popular groups.The first one was on "5G wide area coverage: macro cells – the why and the how". This event looked at the...
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Bandwidth Part (BWP) in 5G New Radio (NR)
I made a short tutorial explaining the concept of Bandwidth Part in 5G a while back. Slides and video embedded below.Intermediate: Bandwidth Parts (BWP) from 3G4GFurther Reading:Understanding 5G New...
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Couple of talks by NTT Docomo on 5G and Beyond (pre-6G)
The Japanese operator, NTT Docomo is a very bold MNO. Not only do they do interesting research but they are very open about what they have been doing and share it publicly. For example, last month they...
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New Tutorial on 5G Spectrum
We made a new tutorial on 5G spectrum. It's in 2 different formats. Short version (~13 mins) or Long version (~31 mins). Instead of embedding the slides/videos here, I am providing links to the 5G...
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3GPP Release-16, Release-17 & Beyond...
6G Summit featured quite a few talks from people looking at evolution beyond Release-16. The future releases will still be 5G, maybe become 5.5G, like 3GPP Release-13 which was known as LTE-Advanced...
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Finland: A country with only Unlimited Data Plans
I was listening to Elisa couple of weeks back, at 5G World Summit. One of the things that surprised me was that Elisa offered unlimited data plans but the price varied based on the maximum speeds...
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Presentations from ETSI Security Week 2019 (#ETSISecurityWeek)
ETSI held their annual Security Week Seminar 17-21 June at their HQ in Sophia Antipolis, France. All the presentations are available here. Here are some I think the audience of this blog will like:ETSI...
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What is meant by Infrastructure in a Telecoms Network?
Here is our new tutorial explaining what is meant by Infrastructure in Telecoms Network. Slides and Video embedded below.Beginners: What is Infrastructure? from 3G4GRelated Posts:Mobile Network...
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Study of Use cases and Communications Involving IoT devices in Emergency...
Came across this presentation by Michelle Wetterwald, IoT & Emergency services Working group, ETSI EMTEL from EENA (European Emergency Number Association. Thanks to Ken Rehbehn's tweet for making...
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3GPP 5G Standardization Update post RAN#84 (July 2019)
3GPP recently conducted a webinar with Balazs Bertenyi, Chairman of 3GPP RAN in which he goes through some of the key features for 5G Phase 2. The webinar also goes through the details of 5G Release-15...
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5G and Electromagnetic energy (EME)
Every time a new generation of mobile technology is being rolled out, there are scare stories about the radiation, cancer, etc. I last wrote a post on this topic back in 2011 and also in 2009. The main...
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5G SpeedTests and Theoretical Max Speeds Calculations
Right now, Speed Tests are being described as 5G killer apps.SpeedTests are the 5G killer app right now 😂. Thread 👇https://t.co/jjyk0PheT6— 3G4G (@3g4gUK) July 2, 2019A good point by Benedict EvansWhat...
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6G: Above 100 GHz and Terahertz (THz) Frequencies
A new research paper "Wireless Communications and Applications Above 100 GHz: Opportunities and Challenges for 6G and Beyond" by T. S. Rappaport et al. is available on IEEE website here.With 5G, we...
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Mobile Network Cell Tower Site Construction
I attended an IET Prestige lecture by Phil Sheppard, Director of Strategy & Architecture at 3UK recently. He showed an interesting video on how a site is constructed. I combined some of his slides...
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3GPP Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) Signaling at a Glance
There are growing numbers of UEs that are capable of reporting 3GPP-defined measurements for the purpose of minimization of drive test as defined in 3GPPÂ TS 37.320. Although only a subset of the...
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An Introduction to Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
I made a short introductory tutorial explaining what is meant by Non-Terrestrial Networks. There is is lot of work on this that is planned for Release-17. Slides and video below.Beginners: Non...
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