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• The curious case of Vodafone UK 5G Standalone

  February 18, 2024

  In a world of evolving 5G connectivity, does slow and steady actually win the race?

• Vodafone and Three UK Merger: a three-competitor market

  September 6, 2023

  How the merger between Vodafone UK and Three UK might affect the nation's telecommunications.

• EE's 5G trials and NR CA

  April 19, 2022

  EE's innovation in RAN has found it at the bleeding edge of new 5G deployments in the UK, being the first operator to deploy 5G NR carrier aggregation in a relatively widespread manner.

• O2 Beacon 3 - Orion

  January 24, 2022

  O2's latest flagship monopoles, Orion, are a mastermind in the mobile networking world, cramming two 5G carriers and tonnes of 4G bands into a single streetworks cabinet and monopole. It's a work of art.

• LTE MIMO: streams, ranks, multipath propagation and more

  December 22, 2021

  MIMO is one of LTE's most important features. It allows eNodeBs to transmit more than one stream of data at the same time to double, triple, quadruple (or more!) data throughput.

• LTE: why are high frequencies faster than low frequencies?

  October 11, 2021

  While theoretical speed on different frequencies are identical on LTE, this is very rarely the case in the real world. Why is that?

• Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Subcarriers, Resource Blocks and more in 4G and 5G

  August 21, 2021

  OFDM allows multiple subcarriers within resource blocks to overlap significantly while producing little to no interference, allowing 5G to use its frequency allocation far more effectively.

• Phone mast sectorisation and mast deployment patterns

  August 4, 2021

  To provide mobile coverage to a large area, masts need to be deployed in sectors. This article provides an overview of the sectorisation process and the deployment patterns.

• LTE frequency bands and duplex modes

  July 24, 2021

  LTE functions on a wide range of frequencies called "bands", and are standardised across the world. These bands can operate in one of two duplexing modes, explained in this article.

• Introduction to 4G/LTE and carrier aggregation.

  July 20, 2021

  4G and LTE are terms that are often use interchangeably, but there are some significant differences between them.