Final test — Satellites — a base station in orbit

E1 Release 17's radio rules assumed one kind of payload. Which, and what did the phase 3 system work then take on?

Transparent — the satellite shifts, filters and amplifies and the thinking stays on the ground — and phase 3 then took on regenerative-based access
Neither; the record does not say what was assumed
Regenerative first, so the base station was in orbit from the start

E2 A large share of the 155 short names are one radio band each. What follows from that for the document counts?

Band items carry no documents at all, so they change nothing
Every NR band item edits the same five documents, so those five carry the biggest counts in the subject
Each band item writes a report of its own, so the reports carry the biggest counts

E3 A Release 19 justification says commercial deployment is going on. What does the work plan say about whether that work is finished?

It marks the work as running
It gives the date the release froze
Nothing — the row holds planned days and a completion value between 0 and 1, and no status word at all

E4 How do you tell a piece of the radio half from a piece of the system half?

By the short name and the leadership line — NTN in the RAN groups, 5GSAT in SA and CT — because the register labels no halves
The work plan carries a column that says which
The radio half was opened at the RAN plenary and the system half at the SA plenary

E5 Release 19's radio core and performance rows both stand at a completion value of 1. What does that say about testing a device against them?

That no tests were ever planned
Nothing — the conformance row is a row of its own, stands at 0.14 and is planned to finish in 2027
That the tests are finished too

E6 Phase 4's first work task is "IMS voice call over GEO via NB-IoT NTN connecting to EPC". Read plainly, what is that?

A data session over a low-orbit satellite into the 5G core
A warning message broadcast to every phone in an area
A phone call carried by the telephony core, over a satellite 35,786 km up, on the radio built for sensors, landing in the older 4G core

E7 Why is every document count in this course a floor rather than a total?

Because everything was selected by work item short name, and 6568 documents name satellites or NTN in their title and carry none
Because only 3GPP's own server was counted
Because change requests were left out of the counting

E8 The radio half and the system half left different marks on the shelf of specifications. Which describes it?

The system half wrote the new documents; the radio half only edited old ones
The radio half wrote new documents; the system half mostly edited documents that already existed
Both halves wrote roughly the same number of new documents

E9 In TS 38.108's own words, what is a Satellite Access Node?

The earth station on the ground, under a shorter name
The satellite, and only the satellite
A node that terminates the NR user and control protocols towards the phone, and takes in both the payload on the platform and the satellite-gateway

E10 What reason does the Release 17 internet-of-things work item give for itself?

Operators asked for a second radio in case the first failed
Sensors and trackers need to work in remote places with low or no cellular coverage, transport and logistics first among them
Satellite capacity was cheaper than building masts

E11 A radio feature in the work plan usually appears under more than one short name. Which split is it?

E12 Which short name carries more documents than any other in this register?

The final test