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The 3GPP has told the industry to get cracking on standardising the air interface for 5G.
The standards body wants the “5G New Radio” (NR) to be frozen by June 2018, which should help vendors have devices ready for the planned 2020 date for 5G standards to be ready to fly.
Behind the radio, there will be two architectures: one, called standalone, will be all-5G with a new control plane; the other, non-standalone, will graft the new air interfaces onto the LTE control plane.
The air interfaces will have to support both sub-6 GHz frequency, and the emerging bands above 6 GHz.
The standardisation effort will target “enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and “ultra-reliable and low latency communications” (URLCC) applications. The latter, Vulture South believes, is a cumbersome way of describing the much-touted Internet of Things.
By September 2016, the 3GPP work plan stipulates that the requirements for the radio interfaces be completed. Layer 1 and Layer 2 specs would then be completed by December 2017, with an initial focus on licensed bands.
The 3GPP announcement stresses that both radio and protocol design be forward compatible, “as this will be key for phasing-in the necessary features, enabling all identified usecases, in subsequent releases of the 5G specification”. ®
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday July 03 2016, @07:05PM
That may have been true of the entire cellular development for the last 20 years.
But You have to wonder why it is true today.
First, 4g means nothing anymore because the term was never nailed down, and the carriers each decide it was something different. LTE was copyrighted and officially defined, BUT still you will not find anywhere in the US that you are actually capable of receiving data at the specified rate. It just doesn't happen in real life. (Where I live I found out that LTE was being tested two months before it was turned up, and cajoled the APN settings from my friend at At&T. My then-new phone was capable, and it was astoundingly fast, easily meeting the specs. Two months later when it went live it was limited to less than 1/4 of the test speeds. Today its crap).
Density of handsets may also play a part. But with cheaper cell service in the EU, I can't believe the handset density is any less there.
Personally I believe the carriers rate-limit intentionally, to allow for future demand, The price for service has been going down lately, so you can't say they are holding it back so they can charge more.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.