Key Takeaways Overview 3GPP’s RAN Working Group 1 (RAN1), RAN Working Group 2 (RAN2), and SA Working Group 2 (SA2) met and convened together in Dalian, China, from May 18 to 22, 2026. These were Release 20 meetings, covering the Study on 6G Radio and its system-architecture counterpart. The RAN plenary’s guiding principle for 6G, … Read more
Key Takeaways JVET locks in its Final Draft Joint Call for Proposals (CfP) on next-generation video coding. The 42nd JVET meeting closed at 17:14 CEST on 1 May 2026 with the Final Draft CfP, JVET-AP2026, approved. Test conditions are frozen. Submissions for the next major video coding standard will be received against this fixed test … Read more
Key Takeaways A more flexible 6G synchronization signal structure is under study. The 3GPP Radio Access Network Working Group 1 (RAN1) discussed draft terminology that would replace 5G’s fixed structure of up to 64 Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) per burst with a more flexible “6G Radio (6GR) SSB burst” and “6GR SSB burst set.” The … Read more
Key Takeaways from RAN Plenary #111, Fukuoka Way forward agreed on how much spectrum 6G devices can use at the key 7 GHz band — A dispute over how wide a block of radio spectrum 6G devices should be able to use in a single transmission was resolved at the plenary level. The agreed way … Read more
Key Takeaways Overview 3GPP’s RAN WG1 and RAN WG2 met in Gothenburg, Sweden, while the SA working groups met concurrently in Goa, India — both running February 9–13, 2026, for their respective 124th, 133rd, and 173rd sessions. These meetings arrived at a transition point: Release 19 was formally closed with ASN.1 frozen after RAN plenary … Read more
Ofinno’s Standards Readouts feature expert insight and analysis that translates complex standardization progress into actionable insights to help navigate the future 5G/6G, next-gen Wi-Fi, and media compression technologies. Overview 2025 brought meaningful progress across the cellular, Wi-Fi, and video compression standards communities. In 3GPP, Release 19 reached its functional freeze while Release 20 initiated 6G … Read more
Ofinno’s Standards Readouts feature expert insight and analysis that translates complex standardization progress into actionable insights to help navigate the future 5G/6G, next-gen Wi-Fi, and media compression technologies. Overview At the November 2025 3GPP meetings in Dallas, discussions across the Service and System Aspects (SA) and Radio Access Network (RAN) working groups marked a clear … Read more
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