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I was attending the IEEE 5G World Forum live-stream, courtesy of IEEE Tv and happen to hear Egil Gronstad, Senior Director of Technology De...

One of the things that will come as a result of NSA (Non-StandAlone) architecture will be the option for Dual Connectivity (DC). In fact,...

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...

Its been quite a while since I posted about QCI and end-to-end bearer QoS in EPC . In LTE Release-12 some new QCI values were added to hand...

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

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...

While we have talked about different LTE categories , especially higher speeds, we have not yet discussed Category-0 or Cat-0 for M2M. ...

Below is a presentation from Christian Toche, 3GPP SA5 chairman in the SON Conference last month. I also blogged about his presentation l...

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

Its been a while since I wrote about Public Safety and Mission Critical communications, so here is a quick summary. Iain Sharp have a...

Device-to-device is a popular topic. I wrote a post, back in March on LTE-Radar (another name) which has already had 10K+ views. Another p...

This presentation by Moray Rumney of Agilent (Keysight) in Cambridge Wireless , Future of Wireless International conference takes a diff...

One very interesting presentation from the LTE World Summit was about Improving the cell capacity by using unlicensed and shared spectrum...

Came across Qualcomm's HSPA+ Carrier aggregation video (above) and whitepaper. Interesting to see that HSPA/HSPA+ is still grow...

A recent GSMA report suggests that China will be a significant player in the field of 4G with upto 900 million 4G users by 2020. This is...