The 3G4G Blog

Today I launched my first video. It is about the 3GPP Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) and what is new for this feature in Rel. 16 / 5G ...

This new video and presentation looks at the operation and terminology associated with multiple SIMs in mobile cellular devices. Slide...

I have been thinking about the long term evolution of 5G and have now reached the conclusion that it would make sense in the long run to...

With the mobile technology gaining even more subscribers and smartphones becoming common, the telecom services pricing that includes voice...

You heard the news about Standalone (SA) 5G network(s)? T-Mobile USA announced this week that "T-Mobile is the first operator in the w...

ITU is conducting a global ITU AI/ML 5G Challenge on the theme “How to apply ITU's ML architecture in 5G networks". If you don...

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...

Mobile Initiated Connection Only (MICO) mode is designed for IoT devices that send small amounts of data and do not need to be paged. An...

This will be the last part of my series about Virtual/Open RAN signaling procedures. In this final post (although not the last one on this ...

At the TSG#88e Plenary meetings that ended on 03 July 2020, Release 16 was completed with both the Stage 3 freeze and the ASN.1 and Open...