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Some forecasts put HSPA at over 3.5 billion subscribers by the end of 2016. Operators with HSPA and LTE infrastructure and users with HSPA a...

Extracted from 3GPP 36.300: The eNB hosts the following functions: - Functions for Radio Resource Management: Radio Bearer Control, Radio A...

GSM, EDGE and LTE Interworking. What is GELTE? View more presentations from Zahid Ghadialy This presentation available to download f...

Its been a while we talked about codecs. The traditional (narrowband) AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) codec operates on narrowband 200-34...

Looks like Qualcomm is becoming my favourite company as the last few blog posts have been based on their documents and presentations. This o...

In a post last year, I listed the 3GPP features planned for the Self-Organising networks. Self-optimisation has been a part of the SON. ...

Continuing on the Self-organising Network (SON) feature of Mobility Robust Optimisation , Handover failures. Click on image to enla...

HSPA evolution – beyond 3GPP Release 10, Ericsson, Jul. 2011 View more documents from Zahid Ghadialy This and other HSPA/HSPA+ presen...

I came across couple of presentations from International Conference on Localization and GNSS , held in Tampere, Finland, June 29-30, 2011 Th...

The following is edited from the 3GPP documents: IP is being introduced in both fixed and mobile networks as a more cost-effective alternati...

The below is mish-mash from the specs (see refrences at the end) With the increase of service entities and the resulting user data types, Us...

I had earlier put up some MIMO presentations that were too technical heavy so this one is less heavy and more figures. The following is ...

Last month I blogged about the MBMS feature in Rel-9. The 3GPP official presentation on MBMS is now available. Embedded below: MBMS suppor...

New Report from 4G Americas : 4G Mobile Broadband Evolution: 3GPP Release 10 and Beyond - HSPA+ SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced provides detailed ...

On Monday, I read Bernard Herscovich, CEO, BelAir Networks saying the following in RCR Wireless : Wi-Fi is obviously a way to offload data t...

The response to emergency situations (e.g., floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks) depends on the communication capabilities of...

In order to allow users to access various networks and services ubiquitously, an increasing number of UEs are equipped with multiple radio...