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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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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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We exhibited at 5G World

Mpirical at the 5G World event, held at the ExCel, London. The 5G World event was a great opportunity for telecommunications professionals to better understand how 5G is changing the industry. The presentations at the event covered a wide range of ...
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19th June 2019
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From Albania to Zimbabwe – Telecoms Training has Changed

Since the launch of Mpirical in 2002, we have seen significant changes in not just the technology we train people on; 3G, 4G and 5G, but also the methodologies we adopt in doing so. This has never been more evident than today as the next generation ...
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29th April 2019
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Delivering 5G Voice Services - Part 1

As Standalone 5G deployment continues at a relatively slow pace, a key aspect of the network which must be addressed is the notion of voice services and 5G, termed VoNR (Voice over New Radio). Before 5G, voice was essentially delivered via the CS ...
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25th February 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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What is VoWi-Fi?

The term VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi) can be used to describe a number of scenarios in which a telephony service is supported using the wireless technology Wi-Fi. Examples could include using the applications Skype or FaceTime on a mobile or tablet ...
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21st February 2019
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