Iridium proposal to include NTN networks in next release accepted

Iridium Communications has announced that the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has approved its proposal to extend the capabilities of Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in the 3GPP Release 19 Work Plan. This development will enable…

Narrowband non-terrestrial network device ecosystem certification programme

Keysight Technologies and Skylo Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) extending Keysight’s cellular testing expertise to non-terrestrial networks (NTN) by using Skylo’s test cases to create a certification programme for 3GPP 5G Release 17 (Rel-17) NTN chipsets, modules, and devices…