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When talking about mobile networks, we generally talk about disaggregation and virtualization of the RAN rather than the core. The 5G Core N...

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

Over the last couple of years, I keep on coming across Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA). A simple way to explain is that the standard model of ...

In early December 2021, 3GPP reached a consensus on the scope of 5G NR Release-18. With the 3GPP Rel-17 functional freeze set for March 2022...

I am starting to get a feeling that people may be becoming overwhelmed with all the new 5G features and standards update. That is why this p...

Google announced that its latest smartphone OS will include support for 5G network slicing. Last week Telecom TV brought this news to my att...

We just made a tutorial on this topic looking at where most of the power consumption in the mobile network occurs and some of the ways this ...

I have been talking about unlicensed LTE since 2013. With all the debate around LTE-U and LAA now non-existent, the technology has evolved w...

Detailed post below but if you are after a quick summary, it's in the picture above. Couple of weeks back someone quoted that there were...

Back in 2019, we wrote about Release-17 study item called NR-Lite (a.k.a. NR-Light). After the study started, it was renamed as RedCap or Re...

I have written about the 5G positioning techniques not that long back on this blog here and on connectivity technology blog here . With Rel...

Back in 2019, when we were still participating in physical event, I heard Sang-Hoon Park, ESVP, Head of Regional Network O&M Headquarter...

This topic keeps coming up every few months with either someone asking me for clarifications or someone asking us to make a video. While...