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2023

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Space Politics

RF and Fiber Economics for Terrestrial and Space Networks

RF and Optical Enablers

High Altitude Platforms

Low Altitude platforms

Ground Station and Earth Station - Hardware and Software

Deep Space Near Space

Space Optical Link Budgets

Space RF Link Budgets

RF Over Fiber

Optical C Band

5G and Space Radio Spectrum

2022

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December

February to November

January

5G Satellite RF and Optical Integration

Sabbatical to write 5G and Satellite RF and Optical Integration

Smart Science from Space

2021

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Sub Orbital Value

Orbital Value

RF and Optical Device Integration

RF and Optical Network Integration

Smart Servers from Space

Resonant Networks

Smart Quantum From Space

Smart Spectrum From Space

Smart Fibre From Space

Smart Cities From Space

Negative Emission Networks

5G IOT – emotional and efficiency value

2020

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Noisy Networks- component constraints

New Radio and New Space - RF Economics of the Millimetre Band

Millimetre Metrology - RF Cost Economics of the millimetre band

Green Space – A New Green Deal?

Polar Bears Dividends – LEO economics

Space Based Connectivity - In a Post Pandemic World

STEM in a Pandemic

The Nearness of Flu – Smart Phone Solution

The Zoom Boom - Covid-19 impact

Satellite Scale – Space economics

Space for the Connected Car?

Fixed Wireless- Moving Upwards Slowly?

2019

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Beam Economics

Deep Space, Near Space, Our Space.

5G for Free

Spectral and Spatial Efficiency

5G TV

The Geographic Dividend

High Power High Tower

5G at Sea

The Super Het Mesh Net

Another Long March

Space Storage

Space Time

2018

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

THE SUPERHET NET

Networks that Know - The Future

The Armstrongs

Massive Multiplexing

From Silk Worms to Smart Phones

From Smoke to Smart Phones

Hype or Reality?

5G, satellite and Wi-Fi spectrum, standards and scale

Beam Radio

Nuclear SATS

Cube Sats

Steam Ships and Space Ships

2017

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December

November

October

September

August

July

june

May

April

March

February

January

FLAT VSATS

Red Rockets Yellow Rockets

Circular Arguments

Improving Standards?

5G BLE

Another Negroponte

K SATS - 5G implications

DOT.SPACE - Above The Cloud Computing

Sub G 5G - Big Cell 5G

5G and Satellite Spectrum, Scale and Supply Cost

New-UWB

GAFASAT

2016

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Dormancy, Density, Devices

Smart Antennas – 5G Beam Forming, power control and handover

5G Energy Storage

5G Channel Modelling

Satellite Spectrum and Standards

5G Energy

Guided Media - where next?

5G Vertical Markets

A Second Look at Time

Quantum Telecom

Time For 5G

5G DSP

2015

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Terrorism and Telecoms

5G Public Safety

Satellites, spacecraft and spectrum

Pictures from Pluto- the Radio Story

5G Astronomy

5G Modulation and Coding

The Impact of Backhaul on 5G Network Economics

Wavelength – reframing the 5G debate

Millimetric Materials

5G-E Band

Automotive Radar

Defence Spectrum - the new battleground?

2014

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Ultra Sparse Networks

Interference Cancellation in the RF and Optical Domain

Taller Towers

The Battle for Broadcast Bandwidth(2)

LTE-S

The Wireless Watch - Time for a change

LTA LTE U

Small Cell Hard Sell

Specification, simulation, spectral and shareholder value - why product data sheets only tell part of the story

The North to South Transition

100 Years of Radio

Mobile Networks

2013

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Low Cost LTE

The Second Age of the Atom

Multi Band Multi Mode Multi Carrier Multi Stream LTE

Single Frequency Networks

LTE T2 TV

OOB OOB

Software Defined Networks

Spice Routes and Silk Routes - economics of long distance fibre

Big Data

Carrier Aggregation Aggravation

Switches, capacitors and resonators

GSO/MEO/LEO LTE-The Heineken Network

2012

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

How Far Does It Go Mate?

Tri Fi

Going Global- The American Way?

Acoustic Filters

The A to D in LTE

GNSS2, GPS 3, LTE

Neighbour Friendly Networks

Autonomous Devices

Machine to Machine and Machine to Network Connectivity

Making Telecoms Work in Rural Areas

The New Carbon economy

Next 25 - January 25

2011

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Making Smart Phones Work (3)

Making Smart Phones Work(2)

Making Smart Phones Work(1)

Intelligent networks and the solace of silence

Transforms

The Pole Tax Repurposed

3D 3G Nanotechnology

Is the Past the Future?

Wifi and LTE TDD and LTE FDD coexistence

Spectral Litigation

Patent Litigation and Cost

LTE Advanced and LT HSPA Big Band Economics

2010

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

LTE TDD

L Band LTE ATC

Blue L(i)TE?

Mobile Broadband Access Economics

LTE user equipment, network efficiency and value

The RF Performance of LTE User Devices

Multi Band Power Amplifiers

Multi Band Switching

UHF Broadband and Multiband RF Design

Standard bearers? The role of OFDM

Lost in the cloud? The wisdom of the cloud?

From steam to silicon – the economics of global connectivity

2009

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Information Networks in an Information Age

New thinking in a Newly Connected Economy

Universal Broadband Access

Tri Band Networks

Spectral Economic Efficiency

Technopolies

A Broader View of Broadband

LTE TV

Digital Britain in an Analog World

Capital Transfer Networks

Mobile Broadband

White Space

2008

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

100 years in Telecoms

75 years in Telecoms

50 Years in Telecoms

25 years in Telecoms

10 Years in Telecoms

The consequential cost of light touch regulation

Telephone numbers Five a Side Phone Economics

SMS SOS

A longer look at radar

Radio and radar

Satellites in emergency service provision

The Negative Value of Content

2007

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December

November

October

September
& August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Wireless data in a jam?

Will the pot call the kettle back?(2)

60 Years of cellular

Radio in cellular phones

Satellite and terrestrial hybrid networks

Three way radio Two Way Radio, Cellular and Broadcast Integration

RF Cost economics for handsets

Terrestrial TV

UHFUMTS

The Battle for Broadcast bandwidth

Ultra low cost spectrum

2006

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Ultra low cost networks

Ultra low cost smart phones

Ultra low cost handsets

Memory spots, motes and Mu chips

RF Device Development

HSPA Device and System Efficiency

Nervous Networks

Sight, Sound and Cellular Signature Value

Mobile Meta Data

Esperanto for Engineers

Competitive Networks

The bit rate race

2005

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Smart super phones

Do we need Super 3G?

Matrix Maths in Mobiles Maths in Mobile Phones(2)

Maths in Mobile Phones(1)

WiFi Voice and Video

Convergence - Costs and margins

Broadcast Over Cellular (BOC) Deployment

Adaptive Systems

Camcorders and their impact on Camera Phone Design

Digital cameras and their impact on Camera Phone Design

Camera Phone Design

Device driven value

2004

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

OFDM performance and cost

3G cost and quality

Wideband wireless

BLUWB?

WiFi PHY

Five PHYS named FLO

Handset and network value

Handset and network loading

Handset software testing

Handset hardware testing

The impact of quality on session length

Media Processor Design

2003

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Deterministic software

Multi service multi media networks

Multi media modeling

Cost benefits of WCDMA- facts and fiction

EDGE data rates and coverage constraints

The impact of the traffic mix shift on network hardware (2)

The impact of the traffic mix shift on network hardware (1)

Multi-band multi-mode multi-media mobiles

Multi-user multi-format multi-media using M-PEG4

Turbulent networks

The impact of handset hardware on the offered traffic mix and offered traffic value

IP network processor performance limitations

2002

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Session Power budgets

SIP and Session Management

IT QOS

Storage persistency

Consistency as a quality metric

3G compatibility and performance

The circuit switch to session switch transition

Modulation and Multiplexing - the 3G to 4G transition

Channel Coding - the 2G to 3G transition

Source coding

Declarative applications

3 G software

2001

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Reality gaps

CDMA explained

RF and DSP 3G design optimization

Positioning

Packet Shaping/Traffic Shaping Protocols (Part 2)

Packet Shaping/Traffic Shaping Protocols (Part 1)

Point to point to peer to peer

Image, Video, Radio and Network Quality

3G Handset hardware

3G Content

3G Planning

3G Costs

2000

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Simple phase noise measurement

Frequency multiplication

The wireless web

Wireless IP

3G Fixed access

End to end connectivity constraints

2G Connectivity constraints

The 3GPC

3G Content capture

3G Displays

3G Compression

3G Memory

1999

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December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

3G DSP

WCDMA Processing gain

3G Demodulation budget

3G receiver noise budget

3G TV

3G Network density

Digital IF design

Ad hoc networks

Mobile IP

CDMA and GSM

Cdma2000 and IP QoS transparency

Device access networks - will the pot call the kettle back? (1)

1998

Title

December

November

October

September

August

3G Wireless local loop

Connectivity devices

WCDMA

Cordless and cellular convergence

GPRS design