3GPP officially formed in December 1998 when ETSI partnered with these standards and telecom organizations with the goal of developing 3G networks. The 3GPP partnership was based on an earlier strategic initiative for the development of wireless internet between AT&T and Nortel Networks, which later at...
3GPP Release 15 Mission Critical (MC) Features to Connect, Protect and Boost as 5G Starts The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an industry-wide partnership between seven major telecommunications organizations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA and TTC) that governs and provides ...
What is 3GPP? 3GPP, or the Third Generation Partnership Project, is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations. Its primary mission is to make a globally applicable third-generation (3G) mobile phone system specification that falls within the scope of the International Mobile Tel...
Starting with an overview of how 3GPP works, what is meant with 5G Phase 1 and 2 and a clear timeline for ongoing and planned activities are provided. Finally an interesting innovation vector for beyond 5G systems, i.e. dynamic (in time) spectrum management, is briefly mentioned....
The cellular technology landscape is ever evolving. The 5G era includes standards defined by the 3GPP as low power wide area (LPWA) networks, which are Long Term Machine Type Communication (LTE-M) – also referred to as Cat-M – and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). Non-cellular LPWA network LoRa...
Currently, most 5G networks use LTE technology to link supporting devices to 5G frequency bands. Network protocol standards established by 3GPP define this type of 5G architecture as Non-standalone (NSA). Until now, mobile carriers have been forced to meet the demands of 5G customers by leveragi...
What is 5G and how does it work? Learn more about 5G technology and 5G networks, how it differs from 4G, and how it impacts communication and entertainment.
NTN is an important function of 3GPP R17.It continues to evolve in the 5G-Advanced stage and has become an important part of the 3GPP R18 work plan. NTN includes two workgroups: IoT NTN and NR NTN. IoT NTN focuses on satellite IoT services that support low-complexity eMTC and NB-IoT ...
Learn about use cases for 5G New Radio (NR), requirements associated with those use cases, some of the main differences between 5G NR and LTE, and deployment scenarios that have been envisioned by the 3GPP standardization body. You’ll also learn about frequency ranges for 5G NR: FR1 and ...
In 2000, 3GPP issued a set of technical specifications – IMT-2000, “International Mobile Telecommunications”- which defined what the industry wanted to achieve with a third generation system. The launch of the first iPhone was still seven years away. However, there was a realisation that 3G ...