Taiwan News
Date: 2018/06/15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The mobile industry has completed a key milestone in the
The world moves one step closer to 5G with the completion of a standalone standard. (By Associated Press)
process toward 5G commercial networks by approving standalone 5G specifications, reports said Friday.
The achievement is seen as paving the way for the introduction of 5G commercialization, at first in the United States later this year, and next year also in other parts of the world.
At the end of last year, the international standards organization 3GPP approved “non-standalone” 5G specifications, which meant the standards still maintained close links to existing 4G systems.
This month’s standalone specifications means that developers can choose 5G systems which do not rely directly on the “old” 4G systems, reports said.
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