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Source: GSA 5G forecasts have been arriving steadily with many different figures. Here are some numbers: Date Pred...

Its been a while since I wrote about LTE-U / LAA on this blog. I have written a few posts on the small cells blog but they seem to be dat...

The CEO of UK mobile network operator EE recently announced on twitter that they have achieved 429 Mbps in live network. The following i...

Last year Qualcomm announced the X16 LTE modem that was capable of up to 1Gbps, category 16 in DL and Cat 13 (150 Mbps) in UL. See my ...

Just noticed that the LTE UE Categories have been updated since I last posted here . Since Release-12 onwards, we now have a possibility of...

A good way to start 2016 is by a lecture delivered by Andy Sutton, EE at the IET conference 'Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision ...

3GPP announced back in October that the next evolution of the 3GPP LTE standards will be known as LTE-Advanced Pro. I am sure this will ...

Back in September, 3GPP reached a decision to standardise NarrowBand IOT (NB-IOT). Now people familiar with the evolution of LTE-A UE ca...

With 3GPP Release-13 due early/mid next year, there has been a flurry of presentations and whitepapers on this topic. This post provides ...

As per Analysis Mason , of the 413 commercial LTE networks that have been launched worldwide by the end of 2Q 2015, FD-LTE accounts for 34...

Some months back I wrote about the LTE Category-0 devices here . While Rel-12 LTE Cat 0 devices are a first step in the right direction, ...

I had the pleasure of doing a keynote at PhaseReady 2015 in London today. My presentation is embedded below along with some comments, f...

In the WiFi Global Congress last week, I heard this interesting talk from an ex-colleague who now works with Huawei. While there were a ...

While checking 3GPP TS 36.306 , I noticed some new LTE categories have been defined. We now have all the way up to category 14. I also n...

We have talked about the unlicensed LTE ( LTE-U ), re-branded as LTE-LAA many times on this blog and the 3G4G Small Cells blog . In fa...

4G Americas has published a detailed whitepaper on Carrier Aggregation (CA). Its a very good detailed document for anyone wishing to stud...

Before we look at what 4.5G is, lets look at what is not 4.5G. First and foremost, Carrier Aggregation is not 4.5G. Its the foundation for...