The 3G4G Blog

The Economist recently published a special report on Telecoms in Emerging markets which is available here . The following is an extract from...

Earlier, I have blogged about LTE femtocells being starting point of LTE and how LTE can be better technology than HSPA. In this months IEE...

There are some interesting slides and presentation from the IEEE Communications Society ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany in June 2009...

A new feature that was studied part of 3GPP Release 8 was PPAC ( Paging Permission with Access Control ). The aim of this feature was that ...

In R99, RLC packets had to be relatively small to avoid the retransmission of very large packets in case of transmission errors. Another rea...

Users should always be kept in the state that gives the best trade-off between data rate availability, latency, battery consumption and usag...

I am not sure what the right answer to this question is? There will be winners and losers in either case. FCC (Federal Communications Commis...

A non-profit group in the occupied West Bank has started a scheme that uses mobile phone text messaging to help young Palestinians find work...

I blogged few months back about SMS for emergency services in USA now the same is being tried in UK. Ofcom is trialling a new system to le...

Very interesting diagram summarising HSPA Functions and Benefits Source: 3G Americas Whitepaper , HSPA to LTE-Advanced: 3GPP Broadband Evol...