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Recent Industry News
The next version of 5G expected to be delayed to 2022
October 20, 2020
There’s a growing sense that the next big update to the 5G standard won’t be finished until 2022, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, there are widening fears that the global geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China could fracture the 5G standard in a way that would create a Chinese version of the technology and a US version of the technology.
Barr’s call for U.S. control of 5G providers quickly rebuked
February 8, 2020
Associated Press Tali Arbel February 7, 2020 NEW YORK (AP) — Trump administration officials, increasingly intent on preventing Chinese global technological domination, keep floating the idea that the U.S. government should take a more direct hand in running next-generation 5G wireless networks. But the notion isn’t terribly popular — not even within the administration. On […]
SRG: 5G coverage maps are ‘optimistic’
February 4, 2020
RCR Wireless Kelly Hill February 4, 2020 Testing of 5G at sub-6 GHz frequencies concludes that mid-band LTE is “the weakest link” Even with low-band 5G New Radio deployments that would presumably provide more, and more robust, coverage than millimeter-waved-based 5G, carriers’ 5G coverage maps are still “optimistic,” according to new drive test data from […]