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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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5G and Satellite Communications

Even with the deployment of 5G networks, terrestrial coverage still remains to be a challenge and being able to connect the remaining unconnected populations is complex and potentially costly. Providing additional coverage to those hard to reach ...
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29th May 2020
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The Challenges for 5G and Transport Networks

A number of challenges face service providers with regards to being able to meet the 5G requirements. These challenges include a network bandwidth that doubles every 18 months and connected device numbers that double every 24 months. In order to ...
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13th March 2020

Beyond 5G – Network 2030

Even before the ink has dried on the latest specifications for 5G, international groups and organisations are gathering, organising summits and holding meetings to discuss and identify a network technology that will be suitable for the 2030s; 6G. ...
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31st January 2020
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Mission Critical Services

The provision of reliable and guaranteed communications between first responders is essential in ensuring that people are kept safe and damage is avoided, or where possible mitigated. This reliable and guaranteed communication is referred to as MC ...
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6th December 2019
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Blockchain and 5G

Blockchain has a number of key capabilities that could be of benefit to a 5G network deployment. Combining blockchain and 5G technologies will enable the benefits of both to be leveraged to great effect. Authentication One of the key characteristics ...
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25th October 2019
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Femto Cells

A Femto Cell is traditionally considered to be a customer-owned base station. Typically situated in a house or small business, a Femto Cell, also referred to as a Small Cell, is able to provide targeted network coverage, which significantly ...
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21st February 2019
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V2X

V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) aims to provide real-time, extremely reliable and actionable information that will facilitate a safer and more environmentally friendly transport network. It will achieve this by reducing the number of vehicle collisions, ...
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12th February 2019
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5G is almost here…

Unlike previous generations it is predicted that 5G will transform the role that telecommunications technology has adopted over the years. There is an expectation that it will enable economic growth1 and facilitate further digitisation of what will ...
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25th November 2018

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