The 3G4G Blog

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 &am...

Over the last few months I have discussed the role of 5G in different industries as part of various projects. Some of these discussions are ...

We have looked at 5G Non Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in many different posts in our blogs. If you are new to this topic then this tutorial w...

5G PPP held a virtual workshop on RAN Release 18 for Industry Verticals on June 23rd, 2021. The workshop was organised by 3GPP Market Repres...

I was involved in helping organise yet another CW TEC conference this year. The topic was quite interesting and we had some brilliant spe...

I made a short introductory tutorial explaining what is meant by Non-Terrestrial Networks. There is is lot of work on this that is plann...

I recently presented my personal vision of an alternative 5G for rural communities on behalf of Parallel Wireless at the IEEE 5G Summit...

Satellites has been an area of interest of mine for a while as some of you know that I used to work as Satellite Applications & Se...

I recently made a video explaining how connectivity works on planes and how its about to change. The video and slides are embedded below...

Source: Intelsat I have been talking about the role of satellites in future communications on my  blog  and various industry  fora ....

5G is often seen as a panacea for everything that is imperfect in mobile technology. Any issues with coverage, capacity, connectivity and s...

While many of us have been focussing purely on wireless and mobile / 5G, the coverage and capacity provided by satellites is increasing and...

One of the things that the World Radio Conference 2015 (WRC-15) enabled was to provide a universal spectrum allocation for flight tracki...

While there are many parameters to consider when designing the next generation network, speed is the simplest one to understand and sell t...

Continuing with the updates from 5G RAN workshop, part 1 and part 2 here. Dish network wants to have a satellite based 5G network. A ...