Signals Flash!

Signals Flash! contains fast-breaking news about the wireless industry. Unlike our Signals Ahead research product, it is absolutely free of charge and can be redistributed with no penalties – as a matter of fact, we encourage it. All issues are downloadable with free registration.

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SRG's Super Bowl Scouting Report...of LTE and 5G cellular capacity
February 7, 2023
SRG conducted a scouting report of available LTE and 5G capacity around the State Farm stadium in Glendale, AZ. Based...
In the Spirit of Giving
December 16, 2022
SRG just completed the industry’s first independent benchmark study of 8-layer 5G MU-MIMO (Multi-User MIMO) in a commercial network (T-Mobile...
Stop the Presses!
September 27, 2022
SRG did some preliminary testing of MU-MIMO, based on testing that we did in the Verizon Band n77 network in...
Brush off the dust and cobwebs
March 8, 2022
SRG spent the week in Barcelona where we attended Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022. In this Signals Flash report we...
A Holiday DISH
December 16, 2021
SRG just spent the day drive testing 5G NR network coverage in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this Signals Flash report...
Deep Thought(s)
October 22, 2021
In this Signals Flash, we offer our thoughts on the future of 5G NR, 5G Advanced, and whatever comes next...
A Few Highlights from the RAN#91e Plenary
April 26, 2021
In late March, 3GPP held its RAN #91 electronic plenary. In addition to electing new leadership, the plenary made several...
Sweet 16!
September 8, 2020
SRG conducted the industry’s first independent benchmark study of 5G NR MU-MIMO using a test network (100 MHz @ Band...
Deep in the Heart of DSS
August 17, 2020
In Dallas, AT&T is commingling LTE and 5G NR into a single radio channel (10 MHz @ 885 MHz), thereby...
"Growing Pains" Meets "Good Times" - The Crossover Edition
August 7, 2020
On August 4th, T-Mobile USA announced that it had launched 5G NR nationwide with a standalone (SA) network architecture. Shortly...
How Low Can You Go?
January 30, 2020
In this Signals Flash! we focus exclusively on 5G NR coverage, how it compares between the two operators’ networks as...
RAN #86 Update
December 12, 2019
We just finished attending the RAN #86 plenary in Sitges, Spain. 3GPP put a partially tied bow on R16 from...
5G Summit
October 22, 2019
Key Highlights Include the Following: Smooth Sailing. Not surprisingly, vendors felt the transition from LTE to 5G went relatively smoothly. Market...
Digging Deeper
July 30, 2019
Although it is evident to us there is a “thermal issue” that is currently impacting at least some 5G smartphones...
IT'S HERE!
April 5, 2019
On April 3rd, Verizon Wireless announced that it had launched its 5G NR service in Minneapolis and Chicago. Starting on...
Death by Tiramisu
December 13, 2018
This week (December 10-13) we are attending the RAN#82 Plenary in Sorrento, Italy. This trip follows on the heels of...
A 450x Variance in Channel Bandwidth
September 13, 2018
This week (September 10-13) we are attending the RAN#81 Plenary in Gold Coast, Australia. With the “completion” of Release 15...
Stick a Fork in it!
June 14, 2018
This week we are attending the RAN#80 Plenary in La Jolla, California. SRG has attended 3GPP meetings since the 5G...
Signals Flash! Only [Lots of] Time Will Tell
May 2, 2018
Last week we attended the Brooklyn 5G Summit, an event that is cosponsored by Nokia and NYU, but which brings...
Signals Flash - Fun with Millimeter Wave Signals
February 1, 2018
SRG just completed its first, and likely the world’s first, independent benchmark study of a 5G network, specifically a 28...
YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS AN APPROVED OPTION 3 NSA EARLY DROP
December 20, 2017
This week we are attending the RAN#78 Plenary in Lisbon, Portugal. SRG has attended 3GPP meetings since the 5G standardization...
Signals Flash - 5G in Americas
November 20, 2017
Recently, we attended the 5G America’s analyst workshop in Plano, Texas. We offer some rambling thoughts based on attending the...
Signals Flash - Brooklyn 5G Summit Key Takeaways
May 3, 2017
In late April we attended the Brooklyn 5G Summit. Key Highlights A Trip Down Memory Lane. Following last year’s Brooklyn 5G Summit...
Signals Flash - RAN#75 Update
March 7, 2017
Although we are barely two days through the RAN#75 Plenary, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, a lot has already happened. Further, the...
4x4 MIMO Preview and 5G Standardization Update
December 20, 2016
Since we will not be publishing our next Signals Ahead report until early January, we would like to close out...
I know what I did Last Summer
September 6, 2016
With three Signals Ahead reports in the works, but nothing ready to publish, we decided to crank out a Signals...
Lessons Learned from the Three Little Pigs
May 10, 2016
In this Signals Flash! report we provide our thoughts following our participation at the Brooklyn 5G Summit that we attended...
Mobile Broadband Down Under
February 18, 2016
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Data Consumption. In total, we generated at least 800 GB of transferred data on the two networks over a...
Cloud RAN with a Chance of Virtualization
February 18, 2016
In this Signals Flash! report we provide a synopsis of the RAN World 2016 event that we attended in San...
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
November 10, 2015
In this Signals Flash! report we provide what we felt were the key takeaways from the Huawei Global MBB Forum...
The Long and Winding Road
October 9, 2015
Key Takeaways from the LTE Voice Summit 2015
LTE WITH CAT 9 BEATS BEING A CAT WITH 9 LIVES
May 21, 2015
Late last week we found ourselves in Guangzhou, China where CMCC is in the initial stages of deploying LTE TDD...
SEEING IS BELIEVING
March 10, 2015
Last week we attended Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. We spent the week running from meeting to meeting...
SLEEPLESS IN SEOUL
February 19, 2015
We just returned from Seoul, South Korea where we spent four days testing the LG U+ LTE-Advanced 300 Mbps network....
A LAST MINUTE STOCKING STUFFER
December 22, 2014
In order to avoid having to respond to more wellness checks, we’d like everyone to know that we are alive...
FOUR PAIR OF EYES, TWO PAIR OF EARS, AND ONE HEAD OF HAIR
November 25, 2014
Last week we attended the LTE North America event in Dallas, Texas. In addition to presenting a subset of results...
WHEN COMETH VoLTE?
October 27, 2014
Earlier in the month we attended the Informa VoLTE Summit in “balmy” London. In addition to presenting results from our...
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!
August 13, 2014
Over a four day period in early August we conducted a benchmark study of SK Telecom’s LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network. We...
RIP VAN WINKLE IS IN THE HOUSE
June 30, 2014
Last week we attended the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam. In this issue of Signals Flash! we provide some highlights...
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2014: AND THE BAND PLAYED ON!
March 5, 2014
Last week we attended Mobile World Congress 2014 along with 85,000 attendees and 5,000 protestors who did their best to...
SON UPDATE – NICE WAS NICE!
October 29, 2013
Last month we attended Informa’s SON 2013 conference in Nice, France. In addition to chairing Day 2 of the event...
THE DOT – IT’S COOL AS SH&#!
September 30, 2013
Ericsson just announced the Radio Dot System to address the indoor coverage and capacity issues that plague all mobile networks....
TWO MORE CHECKMARKS ON THE SRG DRIVE TEST BUCKET LIST
September 4, 2013
Signals Research Group (SRG) just returned from a ten day self-sponsored road trip to Asia during which time we had...
SETTING THE STAGE FOR LTE-ADVANCED AND CARRIER AGGREGATION
July 1, 2013
Last week we attended the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam. In this special issue of Signals Flash! we provide some...
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2013
March 6, 2013
Following this year’s MWC we offer the following key takeaways in an abbreviated format. We discuss each bullet point in...
Addressing a Huge Opportunity and a Critical Market Requirement…
February 21, 2013
Qualcomm announced its entry into the RF front-end (RFFE) market with a suite of new products and a new...