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LTE System Overviews
Join the thousands of visitors who have seen the Spectool LTE System Overview videos that have been inspired by two significant 3GPP Releases. LTE was first published in Rel-8 of the standard - with...
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3GPP Old Mobile phone competition
There were some emotional moments – after hours - on the Tuesday evening of the 3GPP SA meeting, in Berlin. Nothing to do with the progress of Carrier Aggregation or Machine to machine priorities, but...
View Article3GPP seeks new Technical Officer
ETSI has issued a call for candidates for the post of Project Manager in the ETSI Mobile Competence Centre (MCC), to be responsible for technical support of one or more 3GPP Working Groups.Applications...
View ArticleGlobal Initiative for M2M Standardization
Seven Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) are set to create a cooperative M2M standards activity.In doing this, they intend to pull together multiple industries to create specifications that...
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Interop touches TS 26.247
Rouzbeh Farhoumand, 3GPP CT Vice Chairman, has attended the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) SuperOp! 2012 testing event, in San Diego, California. The event tested a...
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Future Radio in 3GPP
The 3GPP RAN Chairman held a workshop this week, to identify common requirements for future 3GPP radio access technologies.As well as the call for higher data rates and more capacity to cope with...
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Take the 2012 Satisfaction Survey
After the 2010 3GPP Survey, we made changes to the web site and tried to improve the level of service that the Mobile Competence Centre of 3GPP gives to Members.It is now time to re-evaluate our...
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Stereoscopic 3D video
The most recent 3GPP Release 11 specifications include the support of stereoscopic 3D video, thus providing a major step towards 3D content for mobile users.The 3GPP Codec working group - SA4 -...
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3GPP eco-system, a major plus for road traffic
October 31, 2012, ETSI's 3rd workshop on M2M communicationsIn his presentation on road traffic assistance based on 3GPP cellular technology, Philippe Dobbelaere made a favourable comparison between 3G...
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New Opportunities for 3GPP in Rel-12
An objective look at the next 18 months work for 3GPP TSG SA has identified priorities for Release 12 and started the decision making process for what can be achieved by its completion - scheduled for...
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Public Safety
A new white paper from Iain Sharp, of Netovate, assesses the work needed to ensure that 3GPP LTE meets the needs of Public Safety professionals and the broader Critical Communications...
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Recruitment of Testing Project Leader
The ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI) is seeking to recruit a technical expert with expertise in 3GPP technologies, specialising in testing aspects.The successful candidate will be the...
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3GPP Statement on LTE-Advanced status
April 8, 2013A public statement has been issued by 3GPP's Project Coordination Group (PCG), approved during their meeting on April 3rd, 2013.The 3GPP Statement:3GPP defines the standards for LTE, with...
View ArticleFirst live test of LTE under everyday conditions
T-Mobile and Nortel have demonstrated next generation mobile communications successfully in field conditions, using LTE (Long Term Evolution). In the trial, data was transmitted to and from a vehicle...
View ArticleA new Wiki for 3GPP
Available at http://3gppwiki.etsi.org, the 3GPP Wiki was launched in September 2008 as a means for the 3GPP community to share knowledge and visions related to 3GPP technical issues. Read More...
View ArticleTime-to-market advantage could be a fast-approaching deadline
This month sees the first mobile WiMAX service making its market debut. An interview with Barry West - published in Telecoms.com - gives an assessment of the impact that it will have and how the...
View ArticleTSG CT Elections
CT#43 voting list Proxy voting form Elections for the position of a Chairman and 3 Vice Chairmen of TSG CT will be held during CT#43 in Biarritz, France from 4 to 6 March 2009. Read More...
View ArticlePicocells and Femtocells to Be Part of Initial 3G LTE Architecture
It is likely that femtocells and picocells will form an integrated part of the initial rollouts of LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks, say analysts at ABI Research...according to senior analyst Nadine...
View ArticleRAN special focus - Evolution or revolution?
Long Term Evolution is the means by which the mobile industry hopes to dominate the broadband industry in the future. There has been rapid progress, yet LTE and 4G will raise questions for the industry...
View ArticleEurope Waits for 4G Spectrum
Representatives from European regulators met today to hash out the details on how to allocate future 4G spectrum that many operators want for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) deployments. Read More...
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