Monday 20 July, 2026
This document describes a selection of basic measurements that are representative of the main uses of mobile user equipment (UE) with a view that the resulting figures can provide a measure of battery performance or current consumption or current consumption whilst being exercised by a specific technology within a specified parameter set.
Whilst the figures are not intended to provide a definitive power consumption figure for UE, they may be used to extrapolate indicative power consumption data for complicated usage scenarios.
In this document, main categories of features have been defined to rationalise the amount of testing required, whilst maintaining an overview of the battery performance. The categories are illustrated in the diagram below.
The performance figures produced by the tests are intended to give benchmarks for the operators to use when comparing terminals. It is not anticipated that the figures will be made available to end-users.
