The side effect of all the attention and hype of 5G is the close scrutiny of its standards development, and undue confusion and unfounded fear because of even benign and simple procedural updates. While the glorification of 5G is ongoing with this almost deafening drum beat of “world’s first” claims and announcements on a daily basis, people get equally quickly concerned when they hear anything that they don’t understand or know about. One such recent confusion is the question about whether all the first commercial 5G-NR networks and devices will be interoperable or not, more specifically, which version of the 3GPP Rel.15 specifications will these deployments comply with.
