The company stated that the specification was the product of alliance within its 5G Technology Forum, a group that is working to identify parameters for 5G specifications in advance of future standards.
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Verizon this week completed its 5G radio specification, which it says will inform the development of the next-generation of mobile technology.
Riding inside a test van set up with 5G, Verizon shows off a connection speed that’s far higher than what you could get at home today.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote Thursday on a proposal to open up high-frequency bands of spectrum in an effort to let USA companies become global leaders in 5G development and deployment.
Verizon has entered the pre-commercial 5G testing being deployed in multiple locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Texas. This is, according to Verizon, an early but important step toward wireless broadband that delivers “gigabits-per-second throughputs and single-millisecond latencies”, according to the carrier. That included Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. The company claimed it was the first American telecom carrier to do so.
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In March, Entner warned a pre-standard deployment of 5G technology would result in Verizon having to either adjust its pre-standard network installations or have vendors build specifically to their standards as they did with CDMA in the 4G roll out. The actual 5G standard still has yet to be fully defined, but this allows chipset makers, carriers, and all other relevant players to start testing the technology and help bring it to consumers faster.
