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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed the FCC maintain the existing health standards for exposure to RF radiation. The recommendation is supported by Jeffrey Shuren, Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Huawei surged ahead in China in Q2 2019 to achieve the highest market share for any vendor in eight years.

During this week’s earnings call, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg talked about Verizon’s sub-6 GHz spectrum plans, saying Verizon will use dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) to host 5G and 4G on the same spectrum, eventually transitioning to 5G. This week, Verizon also announced its mobile, mmWave 5G service is available in parts of Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis and Washington DC.

Apple reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $53.8 billion — just 1 percent year-over-year growth. All segments grew except for iPhone; its revenue was down 12 percent from last year's quarter. CEO Tim Cook said that was an improvement over the 17 percent year-over-year decline in Q2.

AT&T plans to have nationwide 5G coverage by the first half of 2020, using the 700 MHz FirstNet public safety network it is building. With limited handsets and coverage, 5G in the mmWave bands will initially be marketed to business customers.

EJL Wireless Research says shipments of digital baseband units (BBU) declined 23 percent in 2018 compared to 2017, the first decline in six years. However, the firm forecasts net BBU shipment growth of 11 percent in 2019, consisting of a modest 6 percent for LTE BBU shipments and greater than a 10x increase for 5G NR BBU shipments.

Altair Semiconductor has announced that its ALT1250 dual mode CAT-M/NB-IoT chipset can now operate on the 450 MHz spectrum.

Adding to its 5G portfolio, Skyworks has introduced an antenna aperture tuning switch, the SKY5™−9269-702LF, a SP4T switch covering 600 MHz to 6 GHz designed for LTE Advanced Pro and 5G mobile platforms.

Chinese mobile operators are leading IoT deployments, already connecting nearly 960 million devices for mass market applications in smart home, smart industry and smart city solutions. According to GSMA Intelligence, China is the world’s largest IoT market, with 64 percent of the 1.5 billion global cellular connections, including mobile IoT licensed low power wireless access technologies.