Simon Fletcher, Author at Real Wireless

The CTO’s top five

by Simon Fletcher | Feb 1, 2019 | Real Wireless blog

We’re only a few weeks into 2019 and already hard at work on a number of important projects with a satisfying mix of commercial and technical challenges. All in all a strong start to the year. But we found five minutes to ask our CTO Simon Fletcher for the top five...

RAN World: a vertical view

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 15, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

The RAN World event, held in Rome in early October, highlighted a number of important themes and ideas over its two days, but some in particular stood out – most notably, I felt, virtualisation, verticals, exclusive ownership of spectrum, and operator-led strategies....

Network slicing: research and reality

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 8, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

First the good news. Network slicing remains a topic that is undoubtedly engaging both operators and verticals. This year’s Network Slicing World Summit – the second – which took place in Berlin in late October, was collocated with the Broadband World Forum 2018,...

An autumn of 5G, RAN and small cells

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 28, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

It’s not unusual to observe that in the period after the summer break conference activity significantly increases, but this autumn in particular has been more than usually eventful. Along with our ongoing consultancy and advisory work, Real Wireless has had a presence...

Reliability & latency (URLLC) – Are the verticals convinced?

by Simon Fletcher | Oct 3, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

The 2018 Ultra Reliability and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) in 5G conference has only just ended but the organisers are already looking to the future of an event that is enormously important to verticals. Of course, as I am on the UK5G advisory group, I might be...

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Real Wireless to investigate 2G switch off

by Real Wireless | Jun 26, 2019

Real Wireless has been commissioned by the UK Spectrum Policy Forum to conduct an independent study to identify the vulnerabilities of switching off 2G. The study is being funded by the UK SPF Steering Board membership. John Okas, Managing Consultant at Real Wireless,...

Reading the RAN roadmap

by Julie Bradford | Jul 23, 2019

The architectures of radio access networks (RAN)s are continually evolving as a result of various technical and economic drivers. We regularly receive enquiries about RAN architecture from our readers and one topic that keeps coming up is the evolution from D-RAN to...

Trains, ports and 5G automobiles

The buzz around 5G continued at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) with clear indication that what was once an evolution, has now become a race. As much as the industry claims to be tired of hearing about 5G, we were genuinely inspired by the innovation being...

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