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Below you will find a selection of our latest blog posts that are designed to give you an insight into trending topics and general mobile technology concepts.
Topic: Behind the Scenes

Introducing NetXpert: Your Personal Skills Assessor

At Mpirical, we know that training is most effective when it’s targeted. That’s why we’ve developed NetXpert, our latest training tool designed to take the guesswork out of skills development. Whether you’re a learner or a team manager, NetXpert ...
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29th June 2025
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Network Slicing and Private Wireless

Where private wireless networks based on 4G or 5G technology have seen significant investment and growth in recent years, we can’t exactly say the same about network slicing. The 5G network slicing concept is sound – build a logical 5G network ...
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20th February 2024
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Open RAN – Myth vs Reality

Open RAN can be a divisive topic at times, with staunch advocates extolling the virtues of an Open RAN solution, whilst a significant contingent of industry players either reserving judgement or simply planting their feet firmly in the “it won’t ...
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20th February 2024
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What is 5G? Everything You Need to Know (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our “Everything You Need to Know” article on 5G, we explored a number of basic areas: 5G’s driving factors, Non-Standalone vs Standalone 5G, the progress of 5G’s rollout, 5G coverage and the notion of public and private 5G. In Part 2 ...
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14th March 2023
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What is 5G? Everything You Need to Know

5G continues to hit the headlines across the cellular space and with 5G-Advanced on the horizon, will undoubtedly continue to do so until the impending launch of 6G (don’t get too excited, it’s some way off yet). In reality however, there’s a ...
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30th January 2023
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Controlling Devices with UE Policy

Back in November 2021, one of the first network slicing proof of concepts was carried out in which Android end devices supported a new(ish) 5G feature known as URSP (UE Route Selection Policy). Since then, we’ve seen a relatively limited amount of ...
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25th July 2022
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5G Network Data Analytics

Since our last blog on this area, the 3GPP standards supporting 5G network data analytics have moved on quite considerably so it’s worth pausing for a moment to see what’s changed. If you didn’t know before reading this, network analytics is set to ...
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3rd May 2022
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5G Anonymity and the SUCI

Across all generations of cellular technology, the notion of a temporary identity has been used to protect the anonymity of the end user. The idea behind this is that the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) that is used to uniquely ...
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24th January 2022
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Open RAN is Open for Debate

When you start to dig into the details of Open RAN, on paper it very quickly becomes a compelling proposition. The notion of having an open, disaggregated Radio Access Network which, crucially, is fully standardized is hard to ignore. Surely, with ...
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18th June 2021
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Standalone 5G Networks

According to the GSA (Global Mobile Suppliers Association), there are now 176 service providers who have deployed 5G technology on a commercial basis. Of those networks, 145 are offering mobile 5G services and 51 are offering 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless ...
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31st March 2021
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Delivering 5G Voice Services – Part 2

Despite the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, 5G deployment has continued at a considerable pace, with over 120 5G networks now offering commercial services. Of that number however, relatively few are full Standalone 5G networks, with the remainder based ...
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23rd October 2020
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5G Architecture

With the advent of a new cellular technology comes the realization that for many mobile network engineers, a whole raft of new acronyms and concepts will have to be learned. 5G is no exception, with pretty much the entire architecture anew, at least ...
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21st February 2020
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Private 5G Networks

Private 5G networks are a topical area at the moment, no doubt fuelled by the successes of LTE in private network deployments. This is particularly relevant to the U.S.A., where Private LTE has been deployed within the 3.5GHz CBRS (Citizen’s ...
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3rd January 2020
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