Update from 3GPP on LTE & 5G Mission Critical Communications

Adrian Scrase, CTO of ETSI & Head of MCC, 3GPP presented an update at BAPCO / CCE 2019 on Public Safety LTE and 5G. His presentation is embedded below.

There has been quite a progress in this area since I wrote my last post on Release-14 here.

This is the list of features that are planned for Release-16. There is also an update on Satellite communications but I will look at it separately in another post. Here are the slides:

Keynote Address: Critical communications standards supporting a multi-vendor and interoperable environment from 3G4G

The presentation can be directly downloaded from 3GPP website here.

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• Update on UK's Emergency Services Network (ESN) from #BAPCO2019
• Tutorial on Network In a Box (NIB)
• Summary of 3GPP Release-14 Work Items