5G is Coming This Year. Here’s What You Need to Know
New York Times Don Clark Dec 31, 2018 In 2019, a big technology shift will finally begin. It’s a once-in-a-decade upgrade to our wireless systems that will start reaching mobile phone users in a matter of months. But this is not just about faster smartphones. The...
read more3GPP decides to delay Release 16 by 3 months
FierceWireless Monica Alleven December 14, 2018 In what could be construed as a “surprise, no surprise,” 3GPP has decided to delay Release 16 by three months, so it’s now due for a freeze in March 2020 rather than December 2019. It’s a surprise—one commentator...
read moreEditor’s Corner—No surprises expected from this week’s 3GPP meeting—at least, not yet
FierceWireless Monica Alleven December 10, 2018 As the industry convenes in Italy this week for another 3GPP meeting about 5G specifications, no alarm bells appear to be sounding among some of the biggest stakeholders as to whether or not standards-based 5G...
read moreSprint 5G Overview
December 3, 2018 With one of its largest investment in years, Sprint is building a blazing-fast, high-capacity mobile network that will enable the next wave of wireless innovation. Sprint mobile 5G is going to create incredible new connections to people and things,...
read moreFirst look at Verizon’s 5G TF network: Air interface is ‘very phenomenal’
RCR Wireless By Kelly Hill October 2, 2018 Verizon’s official launch of its 5G fixed wireless access service is only two days old, but Mike Thelander and Emil Olbrich of Signals Research Group are already on the ground in Houston, Texas, field-testing the...
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