The 3G4G Blog

Power saving has been an important part of the evolution of 5G NR. Some techniques, such as Discontinuous Reception (DRX), allow a device to...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the transition from the original eCall system to Next Generation eCall, or NG eCall. At the time, one of the bi...

I have spent many years working in the Test and Measurement industry and have also worked as a hands on engineer testing solutions, and as a...

Release-17 includes two new FR1 bands for NTN; n255 (a.k.a. NTN 1.6GHz) and n256 (a.k.a. NTN 2GHz). The picture is from a slide in Rohde ...

I realised that I have not looked at Positioning techniques a lot in our blogs so this one should be a good summary of the latest positionin...

The 3G4G page contains a lot of useful papers and links to security here  but we have also looked at evolution of security from 4G to 5G...

5G Dynamic Spectrum Sharing is a hot topic. I have already been asked about multiple people for links on good resources / whitepapers. So h...

Rohde & Schwarz recently uploaded a webinar video on their YouTube channel. I found it really useful. It's embedded below. Top...

Wi-Fi Alliance has announced that the next generation WiFi technology, 802.11ax, will be known as Wi-Fi 6. This is to probably make it s...

Earlier this year I wrote a Linkedin post on how operators are setting a timetable for 5G ( 5G: Mine is bigger than yours ) and recently De...

Rohde & Schwarz has just published a new whitepaper o n Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). NB-IoT has been introduced as part ...

ITU recently held a workshop on "Voice and Video Services Interoperability Over Fixed-Mobile Hybrid Environments,Including IMT-Adva...

I am sure many people would have heard of ET (Envelope Tracking) by now. Its a technology that can help reduce the power consumption by o...

Last week we had the Automotive and Transport SIG event in Cambridge Wireless. There is already some good writeup on that event here and h...

Another interesting presentation from R&S LTE Summit 2013  embedded below: Stressing a LTE device with Typical User Behavio...

Another excellent summary whitepaper by R&S, embedded below: LTE- Advanced (3GPP Rel.11) Technology Introduction from Zahi...

From another brilliant presentation by R&S from their LTE Summit 2013 . Last year I had a similar overview from Agilent here . This ...

LTE Innovation Summit 2013 - Anandamoy Sen from Rohde & Schwarz on Vimeo . An interesting video on Introduction to M2M and its de...

So it looks like in the latest 3GPP RAN meeting finally more than 2 carriers have been proposed for Carrier Aggregation. The TDoclist  h...