There are more than 7.2 billion wireless connections, including 1.45 billion LTE connections, around the world today that are operating with the technology standards developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
This technical paper outlines many of the innovations that will lay the groundwork for future mobile wireless networks.
In this executive summary, a concise overview of the main Rel-13 features is provided. More detailed explanations of 3GPP Rel-13 are provided in the 4G Americas white paper, Mobile Broadband Evolution
Towards 5G: Rel-12 & Rel-13 and Beyond and will be further explained in a future paper on Releases 13 to 15 toward the later part of 2016.
This white paper was first published on 4G Americas website
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