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Critical infrastructure requires precise timing to operate. This reliance makes the infrastructure vulnerable to disruptions in timing that...

A new 3GPP Technical report, TR 38.858 (draft not available yet) will look at Study on evolution of NR duplex operation (FS_NR_duplex_evo) ...

Qualcomm has been busy promoting its advanced 5G solutions these last few months in the run up to Mobile World Congress (MWC). You can find ...

5G will probably introduce tighter synchronization requirements than LTE. A recent presentation from Ericsson provides more details. ...

3GPP refers to HPUE as High Power UE while the US operator Sprint prefers to use the term High Performance UE. HPUE was initially defi...

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 ...

3GPP held a 5G Workshop in Phoenix last week . 550 delegates and over 70 presentations contributed to the discussion, which covered the ful...

As per Analysis Mason , of the 413 commercial LTE networks that have been launched worldwide by the end of 2Q 2015, FD-LTE accounts for 34...

People often ask at various conferences if TD-LTE is a fad or is it something that will continue to exist along with the FDD networks. T...

We all know about the two type of transmission schemes which are FDD and TDD. Normally, this FDD and TDD schemes are known as full duplex...

I was glad to hear this case study by Mike Stacey where they have a WiMAX network already deployed and are in process of moving to TD-L...

From a recent NTT Docomo presentation (embedded below). Whereas right now 3GPP has only been working on FDD or TDD scenarios , this pro...

TDD deployments are gathering pace. An earlier GSA report I posted here , highlighted the many devices that are TD-LTE ready. The m...

eIMTA is one of the features being discussed in 3GPP Rel-12. The pictures above and below provide the details. As can be seen, at the...

A summary of LTE Asia 2012 , slides and highlights via Alan Quayle blog . Some of the interesting findings from the conference incl...

LTE World Summit 2012 Day 1 T2 Luo Halyen CHINA MOBILE View more presentations from ceobroadband From a presentation in the LTE ...

In Japan, they love to re-brand the standard technologies into something more interesting to attract people's attention. In a way they ...

Mobile standards & synchronization: 3GPP, etc. View more presentations from Zahid Ghadialy

In countries where FDD and TDD are both in use, it would be interesting to see Dual-mode LTE terminals that would support both TDD and FDD ...