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Rohde & Schwarz and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. announced the successful demonstration of 1.6 Gbps LTE-A-Pro downlink throughput, using Huawei Balong 765, the industry’s first LTE modem to support category 19 at 1.6 Gbps technology.

T-Mobile selected Nokia to deploy a US-wide, multi-band, 5G network operating at 600 MHz and 28 GHz. Nokia will begin building the network during the second quarter of 2018, completing deployment during 2020. T-Mobile plans to launch 5G services in early 2019 in several U.S. cities, including Dallas.

MACOM announced its new MAGM series of GaN on Si-based MMIC power amplifiers optimized for massive MIMO antenna systems targeted for 5G wireless base station infrastructure.

Rohde & Schwarz is collaborating with wireless module vendor Gemalto to overcome the problem of extensive real network drive tests in different countries.

For the first time, SCF forecasts have been extended to 2025 to include the early phases of 5G deployment–and they confirm a major role for small cells in the rollout of 5G.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) announced its new Active Passive Antenna (APA) system, designed to help operators overcome the technical and economic challenges with network modernization and the evolution to 5G. The APA system will be demonstrated for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2018.

Market research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that Apple captured 51 percent of the smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2017 — more than the rest of the industry combined.