Mobile & Wireless Roundup #22

Welcome to the 22nd edition of this newsletter. As the year is coming to an end, I am busy wrapping up my final projects for the year. Looking forward to some more exciting new projects in the new year. If there is anything I can help you or your company with, please do get in touch.

For those of you who don’t know me, I am a technologist with over 23 years’ experience in mobile wireless technology, currently working as an independent analyst, consultant and a trainer. This newsletter is a summary of my posts and others news that caught my attention since the last newsletter.

? 2023 Predictions

• Ookla’s Take on Telco Trends in 2023 (link)
• Analysys Mason’s predictions for the consumer services market in 2023 (link)
• Analysys Mason’s predictions for the business telecoms market in 2023 (link)

? 6G

• Free 6G Training: Videos and Slides from one6G Summit 2022 (link)
• ITU-R Report M.2516, Future technology trends of terrestrial IMT systems towards 2030 and beyond, has recently been published by ITU (link)
• Telecom TV: UK government pumps ￡110m into 5G, 6G R&D (link)

? 5G

• 5GAmericas white paper exploring emerging XR uses and requirements via evolving 3GPP releases (link)
• EPS Fallback Mechanism in 5G Standalone Networks (link)
• Light Reading: Sisvel prices new 5G patent pool at 50 cents per device (link)
• Telecoms.com: Overcoming the challenges telcos face on their journey to containerized network functions (link)
• T?Mobile and Cisco Launch World’s Largest Cloud Native Converged Core Gateway (link)

? 2G/3G

• After talking about it for years, Telia Lietuva in Lithuania has finally switched off its 3G network (link) – you can also check out my Twitter thread of 2G/3G shutdowns here.

? Open RAN/vRAN

• SDX Central: Vodafone Bolsters Open RAN Silicon Efforts (link)
• Fyuz Day 2 Breakout - O-RAN ALLIANCE and TIP: serving the Open RAN ecosystem (part 1, part 2)

? Spectrum

• ETSI launches a new group on Terahertz, a candidate technology for 6G (link)
• Private network spectrum in 3720-3800 MHz band available in Sweden from Jan 1, 2023 (link – in Swedish)
• Private network spectrum in 3800-4200 MHz band available in Norway from Jan 1, 2023 (link – in Norwegian)
• Light Reading: Dedicated spectrum beefs up private 5G (link)

? Private Networks

• Airtel partners Tech Mahindra to deploy captive private network at Mahindra’s Chakan Facility in India (link)

? IoT / M2M / Smart Homes

Tom Rebbeck on Twitter: “Few bits and pieces on IoT and private networks in Ofcom's Connected Nations report. - IoT: 19m SIMs & 1.51PB of data per month (~ 80MB/SIM/month). - Private networks: 900 shared access licences issued, up from 550 in 2021. Almost all in England (91%) - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0034/249289/connected-nations-uk-report.pdf” (Tweet)

? Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)

• Cambridge Wireless (CW) Location SIG webinar: AI and Navigation (link)

? Smartphones, Devices, Wearables & Gadgets

• IEEE Spectrum: Miniscule Sensing Suite is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats (link)
• The future of glasses powered by augmented reality (Tweet with video)
• MWL: XR market expected to struggle until 2024 (link)

? Satellite Connectivity

• Frank Rayal : How the Different Direct-to-Handset Satellite Constellations Stack Up (link)Gizmodo: Apple’s Satellite Emergency Services Lead to Another Rescue (link)
• Fyuz Day 2 Breakout: Integrating Satellite, HAPS, and Terrestrial Networks (link)

? Public Safety Networks

• Critical Communications Insights: The Netherlands Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid published a request for information from potential suppliers of a national Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) (link)

? Other News and Technology Stuff

• Fyuz 22: Built in India for the world - Bringing supply and demand ecosystem together... (video)
• Digits to Dollars: How did TSMC get so good? (link)
• MWL 2022 wrap-up video (link)
• ETSI OSM launches Release THIRTEEN with a new scalable architecture for massive closed-loop operations (link)

? Picture of the week: Ibrahim Gedeon , CTO at Telus, shared this picture from the UAE based operator, Du. By using solar powered masts, Du is able to reduce the power consumption for sites to 1/7th of typical consumption (link).

Happy to hear your thoughts. Feel free let me know what worked, what didn’t, how I can make this better, etc. Get in touch over LinkedIn!

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