UPDATE: Story updated to clarify Sprint handset requirements for 64T64R MIMO.
RCR Wireless News editors dive into early news out of this week’s MWC event, including Sprint MIMO moves, 5G test and simplifying IoT deployments.
With this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, in full swing, we figured it would be a good time to dissect some of the news coming out of the event in video form. Join us know as RCR Wireless News editors take a look at some of the bigger items from the early part of MWC.
Topics discussed include partnerships announced between Sprint and vendor partners Nokia and Ericsson geared towards bolstering the carrier’s current LTE network and laying the ground work for its planned “5G” deployments. With Nokia, Sprint said it’s demonstrating massive multiple-input/multiple-output antenna technology designed to boost cell capacity by eight times compared with a standard LTE deployment. The MIMO demonstration taps into TDD-LTE spectrum with 64-transmit/64-receive technology for downlink and uplink on an existing LTE frequency, with the carrier adding current handsets would be able to tap into the TDD Frame Configuration 2 and 64T64R MIMO.
You can read more about the news here and here.
Also discussed were announcements from a number of test and measurement companies showing increased support for 5G deployment plans. This included news from Keysight, with a number of other announcements expected from the show.
Finally, the internet of things market continues to grab headlines, but with more significance as a number of companies made news surrounding plans to simplify the market. This included a number of chipmakers tackling the bevy of acronyms surrounding various silicon standards striving to stake out a share in the IoT market in the shadow of growing support around connection methods based on standardized LTE technologies. You can check out more on the topic here.
Make sure to check us out again tomorrow as we dig into another day of news from Mobile World Congress 2017.
