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FCC approves first commercial 5G beamforming base stations

By Susan Rambo on MAY 7, 2018 5G, Carriers

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Samsung earns distinction of designing first FCC approved end-to-end 5G

beamforming basestations.

Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission gave Samsung approval of the final piece of its
triad of equipment for 5G fixed wireless. It was the first time the FCC had approved a commercial 5G
millimeter wave (mmWave) beamforming product.

First announced in February at Mobile World Congress, Samsung’s commercial fixed wireless system
consists of three devices: an access point and outdoor and indoor routers. The FCC approved the access
point — which sits on a utility pole — and the outdoor router — for outside of buildings — in February. The
FCC approved Samsung’s indoor router last week.
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closely with the FCC for many months insuring that they were are on the same page about beamforming: Sales of autonomous vehicles will reach five million in
its impacts and implications for power, human exposure and other factors, said Alok Shah, Samsung’s VP of the US by 2026, study says

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Verizon will deploy the commercial product first in its Sacramento market. Sacramento was the trial IoT devices for the enterprise – The key roles of
design, testing and security
location for one of Verizon’s 5G tests, using Samsung’s pre-commercial 5G FWA system. The results from
trials were that a single 5G radio could reach 19th floor of a multi-dwelling unit, broadband worked in line Gigabit LTE deployments setting the stage for 5G

of sight (LOS), partial LOS, and non-LOS connections, and weather did not interrupt the services. The trials
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In terms of FWA and the overall 5G standard, Shah said. “The initial standard is focused on enhanced
mobile broadband. It is really focused on speed. I think what we will see as mobile 5G gets out there and
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He further explained that Samsung would focus on application development and use case development
this year. “From 2012 to 2016 we were doing core R&D and demos, 2017 was focused on trials, and 2018 is 5G is Coming; Your Assets Are On The Line
really about commercial deployment and use case development,” he said.
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interesting consumer use cases around AR and VR and things like that. There are going to be all kinds of
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