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The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) recently released its "Regional Spotlight Africa – October 2024" report. It tracks 604 public mobile networks across North and Sub-Saharan Afr...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/10/4glte-5g-and-private-networks-in-africa.html

TECHKNOWLEDGE is a series of Technology Stories looking at how technology has evolved over the years and how it will continue to evolve in the future. The series is targeted at youth looking...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/10/techknowledge-technology-stories-series.html

It's been a while since we created our security tutorial , back in 2018. One of the items we discussed in there were the fake cell towers or the fake base stations. The issues highlighted the...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/09/detection-of-real-world-fake-base.html

In the GSA 4G/5G FWA Forum Plenary back in June, GSA identified announced service offers using LTE or 5G from 554 operators in 187 countries and territories, and launched services from 477 o...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/09/gsas-updates-on-fixed-wireless-access.html

Over the years we have made a lot of tutorials explaining mobile wireless technology (list here ). Here is another one that came up as part of a discussion where many experienced telecom engi...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/08/explaining-telecoms.html

The first official release of 3GPP TR 21.918 : "Release 18 Description; Summary of Rel-18 Work Items" has been published. It's the first official version of 5G-Advanced. Quoting from the repo...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/08/3gpp-release-18-description-and-summary.html

When talking about mobile networks, we generally talk about disaggregation and virtualization of the RAN rather than the core. The 5G Core Network was also designed with disaggregation in mind, ...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/07/disaggregation-of-5g-core-core-network.html

Over the years we have looked at the standards development, infrastructure development and even country specific mission critical solutions development in various blog posts. In this post we ...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/06/short-tutorial-on-mission-critical.html

At DEF CON 31 last year, Tracy Mosley, Vulnerability Researcher at Trenchant presented a talk titled "Nothin’ but a G Thang - The Evolution of Cellular Networks" (background of title). T...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/06/attack-surfaces-for-different.html

PAULEY are a dynamic UK-based SME at the forefront of the exciting emerging market in big data and interactive tools for business. Pioneers in Spatial Computing, our specialist team are work...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/05/real-world-deployment-of-digital-twin.html

The Project Coordination Group (PCG) of 3GPP recently approved a new logo for use on specifications for 6G, during their 52nd PCG meeting, hosted by ATIS in Reston, Virginia. As with previou...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/05/6g-and-other-3gpp-logos.html

I am fascinated by and have previously written blog posts about transparent antennas. Back in 2019 NTT Docomo announced that they have been working with glass manufacturer AGC to create a ne...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/04/a-different-approach-for-mobile-network.html

It's been a while since we covered V2X as a topic on this blog. If you are not well versed with CAVs and V2X, we recommend you to watch our tutorials on the 3G4G page here . The networking ...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/03/research-challenges-for-advancement-of.html

Peter Rysavy is the president of Rysavy Research LLC, the consulting firm that he has led since 1993, focusing on computer networking, wireless technology, and mobile computing. Recently he d...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/02/navigating-airwaves-future-of-spectrum.html

Critical infrastructure requires precise timing to operate. This reliance makes the infrastructure vulnerable to disruptions in timing that can be either intentional or unintentional. Intent...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/02/resilient-timing-for-critical-national.html

I have been asked about the UE Assistance Information (UAI) RRC message a few times before. Generally I have always pointed people back to the LTE/5G specifications but here is a concise vid...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/01/ue-assistance-information-in-lte-and-5g.html

I have been meaning to share this video/presentation by Patrick Scannell for quite some time now. Pat Scannell is a technology and telecom industry consultant who is a world leader on 5G an...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2024/01/technological-complexification-and.html

The 3G4G Blog is our most popular blog, running for over 16 years with over 15.5 million views. With 2023 coming to an end, here are the top 10 most viewed posts from 2023 as well as top 5 mo...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/12/top-10-blog-posts-and-top-5-videos-for.html

5G Forum, South Korea organises Mobile Korea conference every year. Mobile Korea 2023 had two conferences within it, '6G Global', looking at 'Beyond Connectivity and New Possibilities', and ...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/12/6g-global-videos-presentations-from.html

At the Brooklyn 6G Summit (B6GS) 2023, top tier economist Dr. Jeff Shen from BlackRock, presented a talk from the industry perspective of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and investment. Jeff ...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/11/aiml-and-other-ict-industry-trends-in.html

It's been a while since I wrote about the ETSI Security Conference, which was known as ETSI Security week once upon a time. This year, ETSI’s annual flagship event on Cyber Security took p...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/11/etsi-security-conference-2023.html

Lorenzo Casaccia, Vice President of Technical Standards, IP Qualcomm Europe, Inc. has been with Qualcomm since 2000. During that time he's had a variety of roles related to wireless communica...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/10/mobile-network-architecture-how-did-we.html

As discussed in our earlier post, the long-standing 2G cellular standard for rail communication, known as the Global System for Mobile Communications–Railway (GSM–R), remains in use acro...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/10/the-digital-railway-supported-by-frmcs.html

The second IEEE SA (Standards Association) Open RAN summit, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, took place on 9-10 Aug 2023. It covered the topics related to the stand...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/10/presentations-from-2nd-ieee-open-ran.html

Private Networks has been a hot topic for a while now. We made a technical introductory video which has over 13K views while its slides have over 25K views. The Private Networks blog that o...

https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2023/09/private-networks-introductory-series.html