5G radios get an official specification for broadcasting
5G radios get an official specification for broadcasting.
The race to 5G communication is on between cellular carriers. Standards group 3GPP recently agreed upon the first official specification for 5G New Radio which will become the foundation for the majority of 5G-enabled products in the coming year.
Finalized details of the 5G New Radio standard will be published later this week. Qualcomm has already announced support for the new standard and has plans to immediately begin development of future 5G products. Matt Branda, director of technical marketing at Qualcomm, stated, "this is really the step that enables vendors to start building equipment."
NSA 5G NR specs were approved today at RAN#78. Balazs Bertenyi , RAN Chair called it “an Impressive achievement in a remarkably short time, with credit due particularly to the Working Groups”. News article to follow on the 3GPP site and from 3GPP Member announcements. pic.twitter.com/b10fTV5V5n
The new spec has coverage of both standard low and middle bands but also adds support for high frequency ranges. The 600MHz and 700MHz bands are similar to what is available now for 4G LTE. The addition of 3.5GHz and 50GHz bands will offer significantly improved throughput at the expense of reduced signal strength over long distances.