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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...

I come across a question relating to the different type of RAN architectures once per month on an average. Even though we have covered the t...

My Open RAN tutorial has recently gained popularity with recent announcements from Altiostar, Mavenir, Parallel Wireless, Telefonica an...

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 ...

Mobile World Congress featured many different drones for many different purposes and applications. While I wouldn't claim to have se...

During the mobile world congress, I was pleasantly surprised to see how LoRa ecosystem keeps getting larger. There was also an upbeat m...

This year at MWC, I took the time out to go and see as many companies as I can. My main focus was looking at connectivity solutions, inf...

In an earlier post I discussed briefly about the sidelink:  V2V communications are based on D2D communications defined as part of ProSe...

I have seen many people wondering if so many different types of IoT technologies are needed, 3GPP or otherwise. The story behind that ...

I have been covering the LTE Voice Summit for last couple of years (see here: 2015 & 2014 ) but this year I wont be around unfortunate...

3GPP held a 5G Workshop in Phoenix last week . 550 delegates and over 70 presentations contributed to the discussion, which covered the ful...

VoWiFi is certainly a hot topic, thanks to the support of VoWiFi on iPhone 6. A presentation from LTE World Summit 2014 by Taqua on this t...

The last post on Network sharing by NEC was surprisingly popular so I thought its worth doing a case study by Orange in Poland on how ...

I have blogged about Cloud RAN or C-RAN in the Metrocells blog here  and am looking forward to more discussions on this topic in the SON...

Found an interesting slide showing 2 Factor Authentication in picture from a presentation in LTE World Summit You can also read more a...

So LTE (or '4G') is about to be launched in the UK as announced yesterday. Its going to be branded as 4GEE . Here is a summa...

A presentation from the LTE World Summit in 2012 .

Summary of the interesting announcements and things that happened in the Small Cells World Summit 2012 DAY 1 @lesanto: "sma...