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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.
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AI and its Significance to 5G

Perhaps not too surprisingly, news coming out of Las Vegas last week (CES 2020) tended to focus on the mass rollout and uptake in 5G, and the evolution of ML (Machine Learning) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) as it begins to encompass all aspects ...
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17th January 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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10 Challenges for 5G

5G is here and depending on where you are in the world, it’s potentially been with you for some time now. For the majority of mobile service providers however, the journey has only just begun or may not even be on the horizon. Challenges for 5G ...
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20th December 2019
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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

Are all 5G Non-Standalone deployments using only small cells?

The number of 5G Non Standalone (NSA) deployments has increased with more service providers moving into 5G. Whilst some focus on standalone operation, the ones deploying 5G NSA have various challenges when it comes to the Radio Frequency (RF) bands ...
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22nd November 2019
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What is the Future for our 2G and 3G Networks?

With the UK’s mobile service providers now rolling out 5G, a question that arises is for how long will they still need to support their legacy 2G and 3G networks and just how simple will it be to turn them off? Over the past couple of months, I have ...
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8th November 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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Wireline Access in 5G

As 5G begins to be deployed in earnest, it is plain to see that it is much more than a simple upgrade to the current 4G mobile networks. The three fundamental pillars of 5G; eMBB (Enhanced Mobile Broadband), MMTC (Massive Machine Type ...
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7th October 2019
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5G ATSSS

In LTE, the capability to utilize both 3GPP and Non-3GPP access networks has been there from the early days of the technology. As LTE matured, so too did the techniques available for manipulating how data should be split and transferred over each ...
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27th September 2019
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5G V2X and Autonomous Vehicles

Future vehicles will not only be connected, they will also be autonomous. These connected and autonomous vehicles will require a new ecosystem with specific requirements capable of supporting new workloads and satisfying real-time requirements. This ...
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13th September 2019

MEC and 5G

If the media driven hype around 5G is anything to go by, it’s going to be a matter of time before we’ll be queuing up to have hair transplants performed by a remote surgeon (at least I will be anyway), or having pizza delivered by a 5G connected ...
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8th July 2019
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Wi-Fi 6 and OFDMA

Within the cellular world, OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) has been in operation since the introduction of 4G or more specifically, LTE (Long Term Evolution) as part of the Release 8 3GPP technical specifications. However, in ...
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26th June 2019

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