Hooman

For years I have used my own routine to find and access 3GPP specifications online. After typing in 3gpp.org , a click on the specifications link would bring up a page with the most descriptive link on the entire site: “GO...

If you browse through the E-UTRA 3GPP specifications for LTE air interface (series 36.21x), sooner or later you will come across the ubiquitous parameter Ts. This nameless parameter is the most basic unit of time in the LTE air...

The auction of the UHF band (700MHz) last year caused quite a stir in the industry. The "Open Access" can was opened, Google flexed muscles during the bidding process, and the analogue TV finally got the last nail...

Since the website face-lift a year ago, 3GPP is actively involved in more than just producing Technical Specs and Reports. I regularly read the 3GPP News column and the latest one from Nov. 4 th has the conspicuous title...

How many RATs (Radio Access Technologies) can you name? Lets see, there is GSM with 4 billion subscribers and then there is W-CDMA with its released flavors and evolutionary cousin LTE of course, a few still clinch on to...

One of the benefits of LTE is its superlative performance in the amount of payload that can be delivered in a short period of time. This is a convoluted way to say: “fantastic throughput”. Yours truly has been testing...

Once Voice Over IP (VoIP) is deployed in LTE, the provided Quality of Service (QoS) is going to be a very important factor for the success of VoLTE (Voice Over LTE). For voice services in general, the MOS (Mean Opinion Score)...