With code freezing of 3GPP Release 18 just a few months ways, heralding the long-promised era of 5G Advanced, the GSMA has been trying to drum up interest and awareness. This campaign is gathering steam in the run up to Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, but is meeting resistance from the slower than hoped for deployment of 5G Standalone (SA). Most features of 5G Advanced, including dynamic network slicing, require 5G cores, as do some capabilities first introduced under Release 17, such as 5G RedCap. The latter is subject of the latest report and forecast from RAN Research, the Rethink Technology Research wireless forecasting arm, as discussed in a separate article this week. RedCap is cited by the GSMA as…