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The following is from 3GPP TR 25.872 - Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; HSDPA Multipoint Transmission: HSPA based...

Late last month a guy called Steve Perlman announced of a new technology called DIDO (Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output) that could revo...

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. ...

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

Security in 3GPP View more presentations from Zahid Ghadialy I did mention in my earlier blog post about the new algorithm for 3GPP L...

I hope we all know USSD. If not then hopefully my old blog post will help remind you of USSD. Apparently USSD is as popular as it was nearl...

TSG RAN and TSG CT hosted a joint workshop with DVB project on commonalities between DVB-NGH and eMBMS The workshop was opened by the RAN Ch...

Its been a while we talked about SMS for Emergency purposes and eCall . A new study item in 3GPP has looked at non-voice alternatives for E...

Quality of Service ( QoS ) is very important in LTE/LTE-A and the operators are taking extra efforts to maintain the QoS in the next generat...

In the recently concluded 3GPP CT-50 in Istanbul, EU-Alert was adopted as part of Rel-11. The EU-Alert is introduced under Public Warning S...

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

Machine-to-Machine ( M2M ) is the future and Machine-type communications (MTC) will be very important once we have billions of connected d...

Last week there were press releases about the Long Term HSPA Evolution . The only thing that got reported mostly is the 650Mbps peak rates. ...

From NSN Whitepaper on HSPA Evolution: HSPA Release 10 with 4-carrier HSDPA provides a peak downlink data rate of 168 Mbps using 2x2...

HetNets are hot. I hear about them in various contexts. Its difficult to find exactly what they are and how they will work though. There is ...

From a Presentation by Cinzia Sartori from Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in the Self-Organising Networks Conference in London, Nov. 2010 Rel...

Further Enhancements for LTE-Advanced View more presentations from Zahid Ghadialy

As I mentioned earlier about the M2M workshop held in Paris, the following are the highlights from press release after the event: ETSI...

I have blogged about M2M before here . The Release 10 work item Network Improvements for Machine Type Communications – Stage 1 for NIMTC spe...