The first version of 5G standards was signed and approved: covering low, medium and high frequencies, mobile phones will be available in 2019

According to Fierce Wireless, 3GPP (a mobile communications standardization organization) officially signed and approved the first version of the 5G NSA (Non-Standalone) standard in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal today.

This means that hardware manufacturers can start device development work now.

According to the 3GPP plan, 5G standards are divided into two types: NSA and SA (Standalone). Among them, 5G NSA networking is a transitional solution, which mainly aims to increase the bandwidth in hot spots. It has no independent signaling plane and relies on 4G base stations and core networks. The standard formulation progress is relatively faster.

The SA standard is scheduled to be signed and approved in June next year. For example, the version led by China Mobile will also be completed during the same period.

Since the standards text will not be available for download until later this week, 3GPP only revealed that the threshold for 5G NSA calls in the spectrum is very wide, ranging from 600~700MHz down to 50GHz (which Qualcomm calls millimeter wave).

According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, my country's 5G bearer frequency band is the Sub 6GHz intermediate frequency, which is also covered by this standard.

Previously, netizens exposed the 5G baseband reserve of Qualcomm/Huawei/Intel/Samsung, and the progress and technical level are similar. Currently, Qualcomm has confirmed that the first 5G mobile phone will be launched in the first half of 2019, while Huawei will be launched in the second half of the year.

If nothing unexpected happens, the first large-scale indoor and outdoor commercial use of 5G will be at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next year.