C-Band Increasingly Favored Globally for 5G Rollout, ABI Research Says
The C-band is a likely target for global consensus for launching commercial 5G in 2019, ABI Research said Monday. It said industry field trials and lab work often have focused on millimeter wave frequencies, but recent regulatory announcements by close…
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to 20 countries point to the C-band being the most common spectrum identified for 5G. It said a wide variety of low-, medium- and high-band spectrum will be necessary long term for 5G, but in the near term, millimeter wave spectrum use for 5G services is hampered by technology challenges and availability. Meanwhile, C-band with its global harmonization is a bigger opportunity for large-scale deployment, it said.