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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to unleash another massive tranche of mmWave spectrum for mobile service, as it approved an auction of airwaves in the 37, 39 and 47 GHz bands for the second half of 2019.

The FCC has approved rules for 2019 “high-band” auctions, which will provide an additional 3.4 GHz of spectrum for 5G services using bands at 37, 39 and 47 GHz.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that the company's 5G Conformance Toolset is the first test solution to be approved for 5G New Radio (NR) device certification by PTCRB, a certification forum comprised of select leading cellular operators, accelerating commercial availability of 5G mobile devices across the ecosystem.

Skyworks has released a fully matched, three-stage power amplifier (PA) MMIC for small cells and massive MIMO antennas operating around 3.5 GHz.