3GPP to speed up 5G standardisation, NSA ready by March 2018

News Wireless Global 10 MAR 2017
3GPP to speed up 5G standardisation, NSA ready by March 2018
The 3GPP has agreed to develop an intermediate standard for 5G, to be ready by March 2018. The news follows a call from a number of leading operators and equipment vendors at Mobile World Congress to accelerate the standardisation of the next generation of mobile network technology in order to meet market demand. 

Under the intermediate New Radio standards planned for release next March, control signalling would still be sent over LTE networks, known as Non-Standalone (NSA) operation. Standards for Standalone (SA) operation, where all control signalling and user data are sent over 5G, will be ready by September 2018, the 3GPP confirmed. 

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