Tag: gsm

India’s Supreme Court has rejected petitions to review its decision to void all 122 of the controversial GSM licenses that were awarded in 2008.   Seven mobile networks affected by…

AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) Speech A integrated speech codec with 8 source rates The AMR bit rates can be controlled by the RAN depending on the system load and quality of…

Multi-path combination in the BSC during soft handoffMulti-path combination in the BTS during softer handoffs       Soft handoff means that during the handoff of a mobile station at the coverage…

India’s telecoms regulator has ordered two mobile networks, Etisalat DB and STel to restart their mothballed networks within three days. The two companies lost their licenses when the Supreme Court…

Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has won a LTE rollout contract from Singapore’s StarHub, which will be refarming its 1800MHz GSM band to carry LTE services. The first phase…

The former CEO at South Africa’s MTN Group has denied claims that he authorised the payment of bribes to government officials to help secure a GSM operator license in Iran….

These UE categories are often referred to as UE classes. The low end UE does not support MIMO but the high end UE will support 4×4 MIMO Whatever category a…

The following control logical channels have been defined by the 3GPP: BCCH, Broadcast Control Channel, used for the transmission of system control information. A UE needs to decode it before…

Formulated by the European standardization organization 3GPP, the core networkevolves on the basis of GSM/GPRS and can thus be compatible with the existingGSM/GPRS networks. It can be based on the…

A parallel 3GPP R8 project to LTE and SAE is the Evolved High Speed Packet Access, eHSPA, project (also referred to as HSPA+). The proposed eHSPA features represent a logical…