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Rohde & Schwarz has successfully tested and verified 1.2 Gbps LTE-A-Pro download speed with the newly released Kirin 970 smartphone SoC from Huawei.

ZTE unveils two gigabit-class gateway products in MWCA2017, Wireless Router MF288 and Mobile Router MF990 following by introducing the world's first Gigabit Phone.

Ericsson introduced the AIR 3246 radio for massive MIMO, which supports both LTE and 5G new radio (NR) and complements Ericsson’s global 5G radio offering.

Earl Lum, founder and president of EJL Wireless Research, believes the migration to 4.5G and 5G will create a “period of prosperity” for the compound semiconductor industry, as LDMOS power amplifiers cede share to GaN and GaAs. He forecasts that 5G and fixed wireless access transceivers at 28 GHz will exceed 20 million units by 2021, and 5G new radio (NR) transceiver shipments will represent 80 percent of all macrocell shipments by 2021.

Ericsson has launched three small cell products: a multi-operator Dot, a multi-Dot enclosure for indoor deployment and, for outdoor deployments, a strand-mounted enclosure to hold multiple small cell radios.

Mobile filter start-up Resonant Inc. added the company’s eighth customer, signing a licensing agreement to develop filters for five cellular bands. Four of the filters will use wafer level packaging, the fifth chip scale packaging.

Verizon, Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies and Federated Wireless announced they demonstrated LTE Advanced carrier aggregation using the U.S. Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum.