The 3G4G Blog

I have been asked about the UE Assistance Information  (UAI) RRC message a few times before. Generally I have always pointed people back to ...

We recently made a beginners tutorial explaining the need for The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), its working, structure and prov...

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, ...

3GPP recently announced the milestone of reaching 100th plenaries of the three Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) in 3GPP which took pla...

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 &am...

The ETSI Summit on Sustainability - How ICT developments and standards can enable sustainability and have a positive impact on society, too...

Yesterday, ATIS, one of the seven 3GPP Organizational Partner (OP), delivered on online webinar on 3GPP Release 18 Overview: The World of 5G...

3GPP Release 17 introduced a new feature called AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications), the goal of which is to enable t...

An updated (looks final) version of 3GPP TR 21.917 : Release 17 Description; Summary of Rel-17 Work Items was added to the archive earlier t...

One way all operators in a country/region/geographic area differentiate amongst themselves is by the reach of their network. It's not in...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has been touted to automate the network and simplify the identification and debug of ...