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Huawei and Vodafone have completed a 5G mmWave field test that covered SU-MIMO to reach 20 Gbps UE peak rate and MU-MIMO for long-range UE to reach 10 Gbps peak rate.

Rogers Corp. introduces RO4730G3™ UL 94 V-0 antenna-grade laminates to meet present and future performance requirements in active antenna arrays and small cells, notably in 4G base transceiver stations (BTS) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications as well as emerging 5G wireless systems.

Qorvo^®, a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, announced that its infrastructure solutions have supported more than twenty 5G field trials with global infrastructure providers. This is a key milestone in Qorvo's strategy to support the evolving 5G ecosystem and help accelerate the deployment of 5G.

The FCC allocated approximately 11 GHz of spectrum above 24 GHz for wireless broadband operations — 7 GHz unlicensed and 3.85 GHz licensed. The FCC hopes to spur 5G development in the high frequency bands.

Mobile Experts LLC released new research today, providing a specific forecast for pre-standard 5G deployment. The new forecast will be sent to all of the Mobile Experts 5G subscribers, to highlight the very specific plans of US operators as they ramp up deployment of wireless broadband services.

Verizon announced completion of its 5G radio specification - the first U.S. carrier to do so. The specification is the product of collaboration within Verizon's 5G Technology Forum, a group that is working to define parameters for 5G specifications in advance of future standards. With 5G, end users will enjoy wireless service that delivers several gigabits per second throughputs and single-millisecond latencies.

Keysight Technologies Inc. introduced its Signal Optimizer software—the industry’s first and only all-in-one software for calibration, signal creation and signal analysis of 5G candidate waveforms. By simplifying calibration and the critical design tasks related to 5G signal creation and analysis, the software enables R&D engineers to focus more time on being first-to-market with their own designs.

Qualcomm Inc. along with its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., announced Qualcomm Technologies’ 5G New Radio (NR) prototype system and trial platform. The 5G NR prototype system operates in the sub-6 GHz spectrum bands and is being utilized to showcase the company’s innovative 5G designs to efficiently achieve multi-gigabit per second data rates and low latency.

Cobham Wireless has partnered with China Mobile to showcase the world’s first end-to-end demonstration of Cellular Internet of Things testing technology at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2016.

Ericsson and King's College London will be demonstrating a 5G use case of tactile robotic surgery that will show a probe as a robotic representation of a biological finger that gives the surgeon the sense of touch and can send accurate real-time localization of hard nodules in soft tissue.