Four billion people worldwide without a basic connection, and many in the US who cannot afford a monthly phone plan. Now, the mobile service you purchase every month can help give meaningful connectivity to someone in need. Reach Mobile is a new mobile service that launched in the US in 2019. Running on the nation's largest and most reliable 4G LTE network, this boutique mobile service offers all the speed and reliability of the "big four" carriers (Verizon, ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile). But reliability and coverage aside, there are a few major differences between Reach and more traditional carriers. Reach Mobile doesn’t have any stores. Instead of visiting a store to manage your phone plan, you simply open an app. In fact, you can sign up for Reach, pick a plan, activate your new service, and monitor anything related to your mobile service, all from the app. Seems anti-social? It's not… just smart. Every Reach Mobile plan helps connect someone in need around the
Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) is taken into consideration in one of the LTE release 9 features to determine the location of User Equipment (UE) based on radio access network information. Now you might be thinking that what is the necessity of PRS, if we have a GPS technology already built in smartphones and in other cellular equipment. Just think of it J (GPS may not be accurate always and GPS services may not be available all around the geographical areas , also the accuracy of functioning GPS depends on money you have paid for the services and the quality of GPS device). The end user application of this PRS feature could be supporting location based services which can be navigation (direction to hotel etc.), emergency call etc. Process of finding UE location using PRS: The overall process of finding UE locations are based on three major steps. Step 1. UE receive PRS from cells (Reference cell and Neighbor cells) Step 2. Based on received PRS, UE may measure observe