5G standards approved as tech industry signals accelerated deployment
05G standards approved as tech industry signals accelerated deployment.
A 5G deployment spanning continents, networking companies, technology giants, and mobile carriers has been signalled as the non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) specs under release 15 have been approved by standards body 3GPP.
"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'," 3GPP said in a tweet.
Following the approval -- which occurred during Radio Access Network (RAN) meeting 78 in Lisbon, Portugal -- Huawei, Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Samsung, AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Qualcomm, SK Telecom, Sony Mobile Communications, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile USA, Verizon, Vodafone, and ZTE announced that the global mobile industry can begin the full-scale development of 5G NR including large-scale trials and commercial deployment.
"Today the 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Meeting in Lisbon successfully completed the first implementable 5G New Radio (NR) specification," the companies said in a joint media release.