Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies said they have achieved a non-standalone 5G New Radio data call at 2.6 GHz, adding a new frequency band to those successfully tested for commercial deployment.
Ericsson said that the bi-directional downlink and uplink data call was made at the Ericsson Lab in Kista, Sweden on December 20.
This latest interoperability development testing (IoDTs) data call is compliant with the 3GPP Rel-15 “early drop” specification that was frozen in March 2018 but further stabilized in September and which is the basis for commercial launches expected in the first half of 2019, the Swedish vendor said.
