Satellite technology of the year - The announcement that ‘3GPP NTN Standards’ have been selected as satellite technology of the year was made during the SATELLITE 2024 conference in Washington this week.

Our 2023 Excellence awards have been presented by the WG Chairs at recent meetings in Seville & Athens. The following experts have received the award:. Yizhi Yao-SA WG5, Håkan Palm-RAN WG2, Qi Caixia-CT WG4 and Jinguo Zhu-SA WG2.

In the new issue of HIGHLIGHTS - The 3GPP Newsletter - we discuss the availability of the first Release 18 specs and get the latest news about the content of Release 19. We have articles from nine of the 3GPP technical groups, and two from the 3GPP MRPs.

Nov. 8, TTA will host a free event, with 3GPP Chairs with insights into the work in their respective 3GPP groups. Hybrid mode - open to all by pre-registration. Venue: Hybrid Event; EL Tower Hotel, Seoul & Online Via YouTube.

The 100th Plenaries of the Technical Specification Groups in 3GPP are taking place in Taipei. We're celebrating the 100 this week and also the early progress on the priorities for Rel-19, with TSG SA and TSG RAN workshops during the week.

The 3GPP Excellence Awards have been announced. Tricci So (SA2), Gino Masini (RAN3), Yanping Xing (RAN1) and Richard Bradbury (SA4) are the winners of the award, which recognises their outstanding individual contribution to 3GPP during 2022.

Adrian Scrase of @ETSI_STANDARDS speaking at Critical Communications World in Helsinki: “There is commonality in 6G research results on technology trends… early standards work is drawing on that.” He introduced CCW to both ETSI and 3GPP methodologies and planning.

Peter Schmitt has won the election to succeed Lionel Morand as the 3GPP TSG CT Chair, for the next term. The poll took place in Rotterdam, where all three TSGs are meeting this week, for the 99th Plenaries.

Monday, Mar. 20, the elections for Chair and three Vice-chairs of TSG RAN were completed. The current top table was re-elected for a second tenure, by acclamation. Congratulations to Wanshi CHEN, Ronald BORSATO, Nan HU and Axel KLATT.

An event… urgh.

#ETSIMagic tonight at the Arenas, Barcelona. A event with a view!!!

Just three weeks to go until we set off for #MWC23 . We are again a proud Association Partner to MWC Barcelona, the @GSMA 's main event. 3GPP and ETSI will be in Barcelona for meetings and to visit the show floor. 'looking forward to seeing you there.

3GPP Organizational Partner, ATIS invites you to attend their webinar: 3GPP Release 18 Overview: The World of 5G-Advanced recorded on February 2, 2023. See the recording here

RT @atisupdates: As the first release of 5G-Advanced, Release 18 has been progressing. This ATIS webinar provides an update. Attend on Febr….

We have just published our new 3GPP video, showing RAN1 at work and featuring several experts, who told us why 3GPP is important to them.

TSDSI and the India Department of Telecommunications (DoT) are organising a series workshops on ‘Advancing 5G towards 6G’ . get information about 3GPP technology areas and timelines related to future releases and in particular how Release 19.

Highlights Issue 5 is now on the website at Topics include: Authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) in 5G, AI/ML for NR Air Interface, 5GS Support for AI/ML, IVAS - 3GPP voice and audio services, SA5 Rel-17 .

Ready for the off at @networkx_event the ETSI / 3GPP booth is at G.22

Looking forward to attending @networkx_event , 18-20 October at the RAI in Amsterdam. Please come and see us at Stand G.22, to collect a limited edition paper version of our Rel-18 poster. The unlimited online PDF version is here.

RT @gsacom: We are announcing the establishment of our newest group,the Private Mobile Networks Special Interest Group bringing together le….