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Qorvo® has joined the China Mobile 5G Innovation Center, an alliance created to develop 5G solutions for China, the world’s largest wireless communications market. The innovation center is promoting industry collaboration on 5G development and the migration from 4G, including use cases such as self-driving cars, the IoT and VR/AR.

Huawei and China Unicom Group completed field verification of the industry's first FDD-based massive MIMO technology, demonstrating average mobile phone data rates to 87 Mbps.

Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, announced it will deploy a 5G framework on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble to demonstrate a new post-OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) multicarrier waveform.

The new Intel® 5G Modem is a milestone for the industry, enabling businesses across the globe to develop and launch early 5G solutions. It will accelerate the development of 5G-enabled devices – offering opportunities for leaders across diverse industries to innovate with early deployments.

AT&T updated their 2017 plans for 5G development, which will use fixed and mobile trials to evaluate and provide feedback about the proposed 5G standards.

Qualcomm Technologies, Ericsson and AT&T announced plans to conduct over-the-air field trials following the expected 5G new radio (NR) specifications being developed by 3GPP. The trials will evaluate use cases at 28 and 39 GHz using spectrum from AT&T.

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, has published a technical whitepaper titled Network Slicing for 5G Networks and Services that details network slicing implementation for 5G technologies. Network slicing, simply described, is the ability to tailor a set of functions to optimize use of the network for each mobile device; it is considered to be key for meeting 5G's diverse use cases and requirements, including future-proof scalability and flexibility.