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When will 5G Rel.18 become a commercial reality?

According to a recent study by the GSMA, the industry is targeting commercialization of Rel.18 from 2024 onwards 3GPP approved its Release 18 (Rel.18) package at the December 2021 RAN plenary meeting. The package includes 27 diverse study or work items that will further boost...

What is 5G Rel.18?—the beginning of 5G Advanced

3GPP approved its Rel. 18 5G Advanced package at the December 2021 RAN plenary meeting 3GPP's Release 18 (Rel.18) will certainly set the initial phase towards 5G-Advanced as the mid-point of 5G standardization. Indeed, the 3GPP has already announced its decision to recognize Rel.18 as...

Counting 3GPP contributions — even the “approved” kind — does not measure 5G leadership and value

It has been a few years since I last discussed how 3GPP contribution counting is a flawed practice and why it should not be used to evaluate a company’s leadership in technology innovations. The key point is that 3GPP specifications are not based on the direct acceptance...

Telcos will require more spectrum resources to offer ‘5.5G’: Huawei

Huawei noted that all spectrum bands can be used for the future provision of '5.5G' services BANGKOK, THAILAND- Operators currently lack enough spectrum resources in order to be in a position to launch future ‘5.5G’ networks, Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s president of ICT products and solutions...

How does 3GPP R17 enable MEC applications?

R17 adds native MEC support by defining an edge app architecture The 3GPP R15 specifications completed in 2018 provided the not only the foundations for 5G architecture, but also the basics for 5G MEC deployment as well. R16 provided features and functionality aimed at...

Deutsche Telekom carries out lab trial of 5G wireless/wireline standards

Deutsche Telekom said that the trial of WWC standards took place at its laboratory in the city of Bonn Deutsche Telekom has carried out a trial of 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) standards at its laboratory in Bonn, the telco said in a release. The German...

ZTE is using AI to reduce RAN power consumption

By using network intelligence to cut RAN power consumption, ZTE is helping operators work towards sustainability goals As 5G deployments expand globally to support increasing demand for mobile data, operators are spending billions in capital to build out radio access network (RAN) infrastructure and, subsequently,...

MFA ramps-up support for any-spectrum private 5G – with tools, guides, trackers

MFA, the private networking alliance that emerged from the old MulteFire project, is ramping up activities with a bunch of new resources, including tools and guides, for industrial enterprises looking to deploy private LTE and 5G, plus a headline sponsorship of Hannover Messe USA,...

Architectural principles for enabling edge applications in 3GPP standards

The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...

How are Japanese operators approaching mmWave 5G?

KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten Mobile and Softbank have all deployed mmWave 5G Right now mmWave 5G deployments are focused on adding capacity to congested network hot zones, places like stadiums, music venues, shopping malls, transit hubs and dense central business or downtown areas. In addition...

Semtech/Sierra, Telit/Thales set ground for new east-west IoT clash (Analyst Angle)

There were two high profile pieces of M&A news in the IoT hardware space in the last week. First up, on Friday 29th July, Telit and Thales announced that they were combining the assets of Telit with those of Thales’ IoT hardware business into...

What is 5G RedCap, and will it save cellular IoT? The skinny on the (skinny) new 5G tech

The latest release of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard has, at last, fixed a problem for cellular-based sensor comms with the emergence of a cut-down version of 5G for massive-scale IoT deployments. On paper, anyway; in reality, the news only confirms a waypoint...

Where we’ve been and where we’re going: mmWave standards and spectrum

The U.S. moved comparatively early on making mmWave spectrum available for 5G services with Verizon launching a pre-standard fixed wireless access service in the second half of 2018. Since then, in addition to the completion of the initial 5G New Radio standard by the...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 2 – the devices

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

5G-Advanced to be launched in 2025: ABI Research

5G-Advanced will bring new enhancements to mobile network capabilities and use case-based support to help carriers with 5G commercialization Some 75% of 5G base stations will be upgraded to 5G-Advanced by 2030, five years after the estimated commercial launch, according to a report by global...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 1 – the standard

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

The future of 5G: More features, more spectrum, more AI

If you work in telecommunications or are a close industry watcher, it may seem that 5G has been dominating discussion for nearly a decade. It seems that way because it’s true—important, impactful things take time—but the best is yet to come. Even as 5G...

The 5G Advanced vision: Merging connectivity, compute and AI at the edge

The second phase of 5G helps maximize operator investments while setting the stage for 6G The first phase of 5G is largely complete and already delivering impactful new consumer and enterprise experiences. Looking to the coming years, with the transition from 5G to 5G Advanced...

Poster: Worldwide Spectrum Allocations

5G is a transformational technology designed to provide significant flexibility and support for a variety of use cases. From a network architecture perspective, 5G is defining a service based architecture (SBA) where different network functions (NFs) provide services via service-based interfaces. Download your free...

Poster: Microwaves and beyond

Electronic devices are pushing the frequency spectrum higher, necessitating new coaxial connectors to handle the higher frequencies with waveguides often used at the millimeter end of the spectrum. Our new poster summarizes the many size variations required to cover the bands up to 1.7...

5G Evolution: 5G Fundamentals

5G is evolving - from an adjunct technology to a solid communications standard that will change how we communicate with each other and the things around us.  Although for many, it feels like we just got here, the evolution of 5G has already begun....

5G Evolution: Advanced Topics

5G is evolving - from an adjunct technology to a solid communications standard that will change how we communicate with each other and the things around us.  Although for many, it feels like we just got here, the evolution of 5G has already begun....

THz communication – a key enabler for beyond 5G?

Sub-terahertz and terahertz (THz) waves, ranging from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, fall in the spectral region between microwave and optical waves. The prospect of enabling transfer rates in the terabit/sec range make them a key research area of 6G mobile communication. Sub-THz technologies require...

The role of AI/ML in future wireless communication – an early test & measurement perspective

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of machine learning (ML) accompanies the user of a state-of-the-art wireless device daily. It has achieved tremendous success in image identification, video recognition and natural language processing, to name just a few examples. However, for the next generation...