After a rough year in 2021 due to COVID, Mobile World Congress Las Vegas makes a full in-person return this year taking place September 28-30 in Las Vegas Convention Center. The theme this year is “Connectivity Unleashed.”

VNAs have traditionally been high priced capital equipment that needed to be justified with many use cases. While Copper Mountain Technologies has made moderately priced, PC driven VNAs for many years, it is only recently that several low cost, full featured models became available from other manufacturers. Here is a comparison of some models.

IMS 2022 was close to back to normal with about 6500 total attendees and 450 exhibiting companies in Denver – a great sight to see. The mood was very energetic, and everyone was very happy to see each other since it was close to two years since many had been together. Read this short summary.

While many have been focused on the 5G C-Band interference issues with commercial airline altimeters, there is also an issue with these same signals interfering with satellite downlinks.

A summary of 5G launches for 2021 from GSA Reports.

It may have gone somewhat unnoticed but for the first time ever, Ansys released software into the open source late last year. The software is PyAnsys, a family of Python packages providing a new, unified programmable interface to the company’s proprietary simulation stack. Learn more about this development.

The 10^th Ericsson Mobility Report was just released and notes that Mobile networks carry almost 300 times more mobile data traffic than in 2011 when the 1^st report was published. Read about the key findings in this report.

The Brooklyn 5G Summit has been convening annually for many years but this year transitioned to 6G. While there is still some research involving 5G advanced, most of the work and emphasis is now focused on 6G. Read this summary of the event.

Blumio just published the results of their latest trial of 120 volunteers and the results look promising. In the study, a developmental stage FMCW radar sensor was used for making the measurements. Find out more in this article.

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) recently announced that 180 5G networks have now launched in 72 countries/territories around the world. The association’s research found that by the end of September 2021, 465 operators in 139 countries/territories are investing in 5G networks in the form of tests, trials, pilots, planned and actual deployments.