Verizon Reports Progress Toward Making 5G a Commercial Reality
Verizon said it completed its 5G radio specification, the first U.S. carrier to do so. “The specification provides guidelines to test and validate crucial 5G technical components,” Verizon said in a Monday news release. “The development of the specification allows…
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industry partners such as chipset vendors, network vendors, and mobile operators to develop interoperable solutions and contribute to pre-standard testing and fabrication.” It called the step a milestone toward the development of a complete 5G spec. Verizon said its pre-commercial 5G testing is continuing in in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Texas. The company's goal “is to accelerate the pace of innovation and to accelerate when the industry can deliver benefits of fiber functionality wirelessly to customers,” the carrier said. “During the testing process, Verizon has validated numerous 5G technology enablers, such as wide bandwidth operation of several hundred MHz in size, multiple antenna array processing, and carrier aggregation capabilities that are substantially different from 4G.” Verizon said propagation and penetration testing across residential single and multi-dwelling units in field locations "has validated the feasibility" of using high-frequency spectrum as part of 5G. The carrier has said repeatedly it plans to lead the U.S. as 5G is deployed (see 1607050062).