Category Archives: Systems

What IS actually 5G – and what is the need for it?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Jens Zander

On a “5G event” like the Johannesberg Summit, the above question may actually sound like blasphemy, but seen over the two days this was one of the key discussion items. Ralf Irmer’s (Vodafone) presentation illustrates some of the key issues: … Continue reading →

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5G – A new wireless network or computational paradigm?

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Jens Zander

The second day of the Johannesberg Summit was kicked-off by Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley. Jan gave an interesting talk with a vision that we should see all devices around us not as passive sensors, but actually as computation and communication … Continue reading →

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Spectrum for 5G – where is the watershed for national licensing?

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Jens Zander

An interesting panel debate on “what’s next” in Spectrum was held at the Johannesberg Summit. The was a rather striking discrepancy between the long and short term views. On hand we had the cellular industry debating strategies to get more … Continue reading →

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5G and other key trends in Wireless and Mobile ICT – live webcast

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Jens Zander

Free, live webcast from the 2014 Johannesberg Summit live May 12-13, 2014! The Johannesberg Summit is THE meeting place for research leaders in Wireless and Mobile ICT. The summit is an annual forum to discuss trends and the long-term future. Interesting talks from industry … Continue reading →

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Buy your 2G wireless infrastructure in the webshop

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Mats Nilson

Some years ago the OpenBTS initiative caught large attention; it was suddenly possible to establish a private local network on your own. Some events in remote places etc have utlized the service to add mobile telephony connection over SIP trunks in parallell … Continue reading →

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5 Disruptive Ideas on 5G

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Jens Zander

Reading the latest edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine, my eyes fell on an interesting article entitled “Five Disruptive Technology Directions for 5G” where the authors (Boccardi, Heath, Lozano, Marzetta and Popovski) probe five “hot” technologies that they consider have … Continue reading →

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Sweden’s Net4Mobility: the World’s 4G LTE network with best coverage!

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Claes Beckman

Check out this report from Open Signal (here). Sweden’s Net4Mobility (Tele2, Telenor) and Korea (KT and SK Telecom) score as the best networks in the World when it comes to 4G LTE coverage!  

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Jens Zander on the 5G revenue gap for telecom operators

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Jens Zander

 

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The “5G Hype” is (already) here…

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Jens Zander

Last Monday Samsung made an announcement regarding their new “5G technology that promises download of movies in a few seconds.   “Samsung served up such a sumptuous treat to the media who seem fascinated by technology”, commented Nigam Arora at … Continue reading →

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Scientific Challenges towards 5G Mobile Communications?

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Jens Zander

The European COST Action IC1004 on “Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments” published its visions for the future of wireless in their White Paper on “Scientific Challenges towards 5G Mobile Communications” the other week. Sounded great, but I must say … Continue reading →

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