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I have been asked about the UE Assistance Information  (UAI) RRC message a few times before. Generally I have always pointed people back to ...

3GPP Release 17 introduced a new feature called AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications), the goal of which is to enable t...

We have looked at different approaches in this blog and the 3G4G website on reducing the power consumption (see related posts below). In a...

I looked at Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) in a tutorial, nearly five years back here . Since then most focus has been on 5G, not ...

People involved with mobile technology know the challenges with uplink for any generation of mobile network. With increasing data rates in 4...

Not long ago we looked at the 'Impact of 5G on Lawful Interception and Law Enforcement' by SS8. David Anstiss, Senior Solutions Arc...

Today I launched a new video on my YouTube channel that explains how QoS Flows are established in 5G RAN and Core. It also highlights the ma...

China Mobile, along with a bunch of other organizations including China Unicom, China Telecom, CAICT, Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, etc., produce...

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 ...

When we made our little Open RAN explainer , couple of years back, we never imagined this day when so many people in the industry will be ta...

Having been writing about Open RAN for a while , I thought it was important to make simple beginners tutorials for O-RAN. As my full time jo...

A sub-set of 3GPP Market Representation Partners hosted a 2-part webinar series in April 2021 looking at edge computing for industry vertica...

An online conference on 5G is currently going on. 'Backed by 5G: Technology for Impact', is hosted by  Start North  as a part of the...

We looked at the 5G Enhanced URLLC ( eURLLC ) earlier. One of the ways to improve reliability is to have redundancy in the user plane. This ...

We often get questions about 5G Service Based Architecture. Luckily, we have a tutorial that we can redirect people to. It's available h...

In my last post I described how NG RAN resources can be divided into network slices.  Now I would like to show how these network slices and...