Mobile & Wireless Roundup #44

Welcome to the 44th edition of this newsletter. Some of you may be aware that I am either the owner or manager of 10+ LinkedIn groups. As a result, I get to see some interesting things and analyse trends. One of these new trends I am seeing has baffled me.

I noticed that people are posting long articles or summaries of some or the other 5G features in the groups which are copied from other LinkedIn posts from months back. Some of these original posts have been changed over the months to be something completely different from the original post.

None of these posts have a source and I don’t believe any of these people are the original authors. In fact people are so lazy that they don’t even bother to change the formatting, the same mistakes are present in the copies as in the original posts.

Since LinkedIn doesn’t allow caching of the articles in Google search and LinkedIn’s own search is unbelievably bad, it is difficult to find out how big this network of people is. In fact, on LinkedIn you cannot even be sure if someone is who they say they are or work where they say they are. Some people are exploiting this to create companies like ‘Looking for Job’ that people innocently add to their profile. The company then uses this to market things to these people by notifying employees. It’s a strange business model but I guess any number of clicks is good for them ??.

For those of you who don’t know me, I am a technologist with over 24 years’ experience in mobile wireless technology, currently working as an independent advisor, analyst, consultant and a trainer. This newsletter is a summary of my posts and others news that caught my attention since the last newsletter.

? 6G

• Free 6G Training: The 6G Architecture Landscape from 5G PPP Architecture Working Group (link )
• 6G IA: 5G-PPP to SNS JU (link )
• Optronics (in Japanese): KDDI et al., Multiple devices and multi-beam THz communication (link )

? 5G

• Operator Watch Blog: Uzbekistan is Toying with 5G (link )
• Kester Mann on Twitter: “Not a great 5G PR story this – South Korean operators fined for advertising speeds of 20 Gbps, but only delivering up to 801 Mbps.” (Tweet )

? Open & Disaggregated Networks (including Open RAN, vRAN, etc.)

• Light Reading: Open RAN is mostly secure, finds government report (link ) – link to Open RAN Security Report here .
• TIP: Interview with TIP OOPT Project Group Co-Chair, Oscar González de Dios of Telefónica (video )

? Spectrum

• At MWC Barcelona, Takehiro Nakamura from NTT Docomo, Japan, explained why Docomo supports 5G millimetre wave spectrum (link )
• RCR Wireless: Canada approves local 3900-3980 MHz band for private 5G from 2024 (link )
• Developing Telecoms: Hungary’s main players bag 32GHz licences (link )

? Private Networks

• Private Networks Technology Blog: Telenor's Perspective on 5G Private Networks (link )
• Private Networks Technology Blog: Deutsche Telekom Helps Arburg Make Plastics Production Machines Smarter with 5G (link )
• Light Reading: How AT&T won DFW's $10M private 5G business (link )
• Light Reading: Verizon Business CEO on private 5G: 'Next year, we're going full throttle' (link )
• An Interactive 'Smart mining' PDF from Telstra (link )
• Private 5G is known as 'Local 5G' in Japan. (link )

? Telecoms Infrastructure, Small Cells, Antennas & others

• 5G Indoor Trends and Challenges White Paper by IDATE DigiWorld (link )

? IoT / M2M / Smart Homes

• Telefónica Blog: What is NB-IoT and how does it work? (link )

? Virtualization, Cloud & Edge

• ETSI: Next step in NFV feature development published (link )

? Security & Privacy

• The 3G4G Blog: Top 10 New (2022) Security Standards That You Need to Know About! (link )

• Private 5G Ecosystem Threat Model (link )

• Microsoft: Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques (link )
• ETSI releases World First Protection Profile for Quantum Key Distribution (link )

? Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)

• MIT Technology Review: How does an EV battery actually work? Are lithium batteries sustainable enough to fulfill the dream of the electric-car revolution? (link )

? AI, ML & Automation

• Data Center Frontier: Meta Previews New Data Center Design for an AI-Powered Future (link )
• Robert Kneschke on Twitter: “OpenAI CEO threatening to leave EU if they force companies to disclose copyrighted training material feels like a declaration of bancrupty. If they are not able to operate without violating copyrights they might just not have a sound business model.” (Tweet with image)

? Satellites, HAPS, Drones, UAVs & Space

• IET E&T: Volcanic eruptions shown to disrupt satellite comms links (link )
• A fantastic summary of 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks and Satellite Connectivity by GSA (link )

? Wi-Fi

• WBA Releases New Standardized Technical Framework for Operator-Managed Wi-Fi for In-Home Networks (link )
• All Africa - Kenya: Free Wi-Fi Will Boost E-Commerce, Spur Jobs Creation, President Ruto (link )

? Metaverse & Extended Reality (XR)

• MWL: BT taps 5G for immersive training offer (link )

? Other News and Technology Stuff

• APNIC - Death of TCP predicted: News at 11 (link )
• Linux Foundation & Meta Launch new “LF Connectivity” Project Umbrella to Improve Enhanced Access to Networks (link )

? Picture of the week: OneWeb has launched an advanced beam-hopping broadband satellite – nicknamed JoeySat after a baby kangaroo – that will demonstrate next-generation 5G connectivity by providing high-speed internet services to connect thousands of people travelling by air, sea or on land. The picture below was shared by OneWeb which shows the payload stack including Iridium’s satellites on top and OneWeb satellites below. JoeySat is at the top right of the OneWeb section of the stack! More about JoeySat at ESA .

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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