Question

7. What is the difference between mobile equipment and user equipment? What is the important security implications of this difference?

Answer 1

Mobile equipment refers to equipment such as earthmovers, tractors, diggers, farm machinery, forklifts, etc., that, even when self-propelled, are not considered automobiles for insurance purposes (unless they are subject to a compulsory or financial responsibility law.

In the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), user equipment (UE) is any device used directly by an end-user to communicate. It can be a hand-held telephone, a laptop computer equipped with a mobile broadband adapter, or any other device. It connects to the base station Node B/eNodeB as specified in the ETSI 125/136-series and 3GPP 25/36-series of specifications. It roughly corresponds to the mobile station (MS) in GSM systems.

The radio interface between the UE and the Node B is called Uu.er motor vehicle insurance law).

User Equipment means the equipment designed for consumer use. It is any device used by an end user such as a smart phone or other mobile device, laptop, or tablet equipped with a mobile broadband adapter.