Futurum’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer responds to T-Mobile’s initiative to test Wi-Fi capabilities and performance within unlicensed portions of the 6 GHz band spectrum, with analysis of the company’s intentions and innovative potential.
ICYMI: 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16’s 9 Most Critical Improvements to 5G
What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.