<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Mastdatabase.co.uk blog feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Various mobile networking related blog articles and market analyses from mastdatabase.co.uk.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:37:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[2026 David Wheatley]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><managingEditor><![CDATA[blog@mastdatabase.co.uk (David Wheatley)]]></managingEditor><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Williams]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curious case of Vodafone UK 5G Standalone]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a world of evolving 5G connectivity, does slow and steady actually win the race?]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2024/02/curious-case-vodafone-5g-standalone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2024/02/curious-case-vodafone-5g-standalone</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[lightspeed2398]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vodafone and Three UK Merger: a three-competitor market]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the merger between Vodafone UK and Three UK might affect the nation's telecommunications.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2023/09/vodafone-three-uk-hutchison-merger</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2023/09/vodafone-three-uk-hutchison-merger</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EE's 5G trials and NR CA]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2022/04/19/ee-nr-ca</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2022/04/19/ee-nr-ca</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[O2 Beacon 3 - Orion]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2022/01/24/o2-beacon-3-orion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2022/01/24/o2-beacon-3-orion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LTE MIMO: streams, ranks, multipath propagation and more]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/12/22/lte-mimo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/12/22/lte-mimo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LTE: why are high frequencies faster than low frequencies?]]></title><description><![CDATA[While theoretical speed on different frequencies are identical on LTE, this is very rarely the case in the real world. Why is that?]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/10/11/speed-differences-high-low-frequencies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/10/11/speed-differences-high-low-frequencies</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Subcarriers, Resource Blocks and more in 4G and 5G]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/08/21/ofdm-subcarriers-rb-in-4g-lte-and-5g</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/08/21/ofdm-subcarriers-rb-in-4g-lte-and-5g</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phone mast sectorisation and mast deployment patterns]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/08/04/mast-sectorisation-radiation-and-deployment-patterns</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/08/04/mast-sectorisation-radiation-and-deployment-patterns</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LTE frequency bands and duplex modes]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/07/24/lte-bands-and-duplex-modes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/07/24/lte-bands-and-duplex-modes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introduction to 4G/LTE and carrier aggregation.]]></title><description><![CDATA[4G and LTE are terms that are often use interchangeably, but there are some significant differences between them.]]></description><link>https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/07/20/introduction-to-4g-and-lte</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2021/07/20/introduction-to-4g-and-lte</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wheatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>