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AT&T Seeks Three-Year Experimental License To Test 5G in Austin

AT&T is seeking a three-year experimental license to test 5G in Austin, it said in an FCC filing. The tests, mobile and fixed, would be done in the 3400-3600 MHz, 3700-4200 MHz, 14500-15350 MHz and 27500-28500 MHz bands. “Applicant’s testing…

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and the expected experimental equipment would support potential fifth generation (5G) multi-gigabyte per second (Gbps) applications for fixed and mobile wireless communication networks at higher transmission rates and lower latency than is currently available,” AT&T said. Verizon said in January it plans to be the first U.S. carrier to do field tests of 5G. The first phase of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project standard for 5G won’t be ready until the second half of 2018, with the second phase due in December 2019 (see 1602030043).