Dynamic Spectrum Sharing:

Driving 5G to scale
By Sean Kinney

APRIL 2020

JUNE 2016

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Introduction
5G is often characterized as a
race — a race between countries
to claim the economic benefits
that come with next-generation
connectivity and a race between
operators to claim first network
launches or geographically-focused
availability. And that race played
out at a global scale in 2019. In the
first quarter of 2020, Ookla tallied

Image courtesy of Ookla

more than 100 global operators on
six continents in some stage of 5G
service delivery.
With that initial race to deliver 5G
in the rearview mirror, the new race
is toward scale. By putting 5G in more
users’ hands, operators can move
to more refined service offerings
and begin to monetize the massive
investment that comes with a gener-
ational network upgrade. Similarly,
when operators achieve significant
scale and adoption with 5G, they
begin to reap the efficiency benefits
that come with lowering the cost of
producing bits of data per hertz of
valuable radio spectrum. Given the
pressing need to accelerate time
to 5G revenue, how can operators
quickly scale out 5G coverage areas,
particularly in regulatory climates
where spectrum is very expensive
and otherwise hard to come by?
A brief history of Dynamic Spectrum
Sharing
At a high-level, Dynamic Spec-
trum Sharing allows for 5G New
Radio and LTE transmission to
occur in the same band at the same
time through a highly-sophisti-
cated software scheduling process
that looks at the needs of a UE and
coordinates the network’s corre-
sponding resource allocation. Also
a key point, Ericsson is the only
vendor with a commercially avail-
able DSS solution called Ericsson
Spectrum Sharing.
“It was a long journey,” Sibel
Tombaz, Ericsson’s head of 5G high-
band and active antenna solutions,
told RCR Wireless News in an inter-
view. “We knew of course that the
TDD bands have big limitations
with coverage. The 5G networks
will not be based on TDD alone. We
understood the FDD bands will be
quite useful. We realized that FDD
bands shouldn’t be later. We should
also get TDD support from the
beginning. The challenge of course,
as you know, 5G has been acceler-
ated a couple of times. There was
time-to-market pressure.”
Tombaz provided a timeline of

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Ericsson’s DSS work, beginning in
2017 with conceptualization and
outreach to chipset partners and
culminating general availability
of Ericsson Spectrum Sharing on
Feb. 27. The day prior, Ericsson
Spectrum Sharing won the Overall
Mobile Technology GLOMO (Global
Mobile) Award, which is typically
handed our during Mobile World
Congress Barcelona.
The initial industry 5G timeline
called for commercialization in
2020, however there were non-stan-
dard networks in late 2018, fol-
lowed by standards-based networks
in 2019 as Rel. 15 was finalized.
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Image courtesy of Ericsson
When Ericsson was in the throes in a huge 15% drop in expected NR
of developing DSS, “Release 15 was downlink throughput whenever
still ongoing and of course that Dynamic Spectrum Sharing was
was key,” Tombaz said. “If anything used. The stakes couldn’t have
moves to Release 16, you miss two, been higher.”
three years of the 5G lifetime.” Once a solution was identified
Getting DSS into the Release 15 the problem became “persuading
standard was an “unprecedented all other stakeholders to push
feat,” according to a blog from through such an amendment so
Ericsson Principal Researcher late in the game,” Frenne wrote.
Mattias Frenne, who also works as Tombaz credited a close rela-
one of the vendor’s 3GPP delegates. tionship with chipset vendors
Working with product developers throughout the development
in fall 2018, Frenne wrote that they process as critical to providing
identified a problem with 4G and the device-to-network technical
5G reference signals colliding. A understanding needed to incorpo-
workaround “would likely result rate DSS into Release 15.
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The DSS value proposition--scale and
standalone
For operators looking to quickly
scale 5G, the DSS value proposi-
tion is crystal clear--instead of
rolling trucks to re-farm spectrum
for 5G on a site-by-site basis, a
software upgrade can be remotely
pushed to base stations enabling
DSS. There’s another strategic ele-
ment here too--solving for 5G cov-
erage prior to turning up a 5G core
makes for a smoother transition
to standalone 5G and the associ-
ated revenue opportunities.
“Coverage is always the king
and it will be the same for 5G.”
Sibel Tombaz, Head of 5G
High-band and Active Antenna
Systems, Ericsson
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Before diving into the specific expands the 5G rol out instantly
role DSS plays, let’s establish a because we don’t have to do
big-picture 5G vision as described re-farming. We can immediately
by Tombaz. The primary use cases get 5G deployed into the legacy 4G
5G is and will support are enhanced bands.” In terms of using DSS to
mobile broadband, massive inter- get from non-standalone to stand-
net of things, critical internet of alone 5G, “DSS is a very important
things and fixed wireless access. bridge to get there. DSS is pushing
To do this, 5G needs to deliver more 5G coverage out as expansively as
capacity and higher peak speeds possible. So that means when the
to keep up with increasing data 5G core is launched, you’re already
demands made by an increasing going to have this very, very broad
number of devices; high-band fre-
quencies can provide capacity and
peak rate enhancements. 5G also
needs to deliver lower latency and
bespoke network slices pinned to
the quality of service requirements
for a particular device or use case;
doing that requires a standalone
5G architecture with a next-gen
core, RAN and upgraded transport.
And, because this is all done by a
mobile network, there has to be
coverage--”Coverage is always the
king and will be the same for 5G,” “DSS is pushing 5G coverage
Tombaz said--and coverage means out as expansively as possible.
low-band frequencies. All of these So that means when the 5G core
things, she said, are “extremely is launched, you’re already
dependent” on one another.
going to have this very, very
broad 5G coverage.”
Qualcomm’s Dean Brenner, senior
Dean Brenner, Senior Vice President
vice president of spectrum strategy
of Spectrum Strategy and Technology
and technology policy, said Dynamic
Policy, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Spectrum Sharing “accelerates and
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Images courtesy of Ericsson
5G coverage. If you didn’t have DSS,
you have kind of two problems–you
have to get to the 5G standalone
core but you also have to get 5G
built out.”
Tombaz sketched out a hypo-
thetical operator migration from
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non-standalone to standalone 5G.
The operator has an LTE network
and acquires new mid-band spec-
trum for 5G, which is initially
deployed at existing radio sites. A
non-standalone architecture using
dual connectivity “means that
there is a benefit by utilizing LTE
to increase the coverage because
the user can actually switch the
uplink,” she said. “This gives quite
significant coverage gain.” But if
an operator tries to move from here
to SA “without investing in and
look at their coverage layer, they
will lose coverage. You suddenly
lose the NSA and the link between
your mid-band and your LTE band.
That is the place where low-band is
becoming essential. If suddenly we
can turn one of these LTE bands to
NR using spectrum sharing, with
this case then I will provide full
coverage with 5G in the network.
This is the only way [operators] can
look into different business and
different use cases.”
Rohde & Schwarz Technology
Manager Andreas Roessler dis-
cussed DSS as a way to avoid a
potential capacity crunch through
the process of transitioning sub-
scribers from NSA to SA 5G. “What
we see in the industry right now
happening, especially here in the
United States, that operators can
now also provide a coverage layer
using 5G NR at the lower frequency
bands, for instance in the 800 MHz
range.” With the coverage layer
in place using DSS, followed by a

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transition to standalone, “you can
utilize carrier aggregation here to
create the wider data pipes.”
Understanding operator strategies
Verizon
Verizon has repeatedly discussed
dynamic spectrum sharing in the
context of future 5G planning. The
operator is currently building-out
mobile 5G using its millimeter
wave spectrum with coverage
available in parts of 34 cities as
of March 30; San Diego is listed as
“coming soon.” Verizon also uses its
millimeter wave spectrum for the
5G Home fixed wireless service,
which is available in parts of Chi-
cago, Houston, Indianapolis, Los
Angeles and Sacramento. Ericsson
is a major Verizon vendor and the
two worked together in November
on DSS testing.
To provide a clear picture of how
Verizon has and is approaching
implementation of DSS, we’ll review
comments on the subject made by
executives in public or in interviews
with RCR Wireless News.
Speaking on an August 2019 earn-
ings call, CEO Hans Vestberg called
DSS “an important piece” of 5G.
“Ultimately 5G is going to be on all
bands. And I have a high confidence
that my team is going to be doing
that well, continue to have the lead-
ership in the market when it comes
to network performance. There
might also come up opportunities
all the time where it could be added
spectrum. But right now, to launch
both capacity and coverage, we feel
confident on the assets we have.”
In November last year, SVP of Net-
work Planning Adam Koeppe, in a
statement, said DSS provides needed
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flexibility as users shift from LTE
to 5G. “As market demands for our
services shift,” he said, “we need
to be able to shift our resources to
efficiently meet those demands.
[DSS] will allow us to allocate those
resources in real time so we use our
current spectrum effectively while
also providing our customers the
precise experience they need.”
He said the focus of millimeter
wave 5G investments will be on
dense areas and venues “in order
to continue to deliver the unique
experience customers associate
with 5G and that are only possible
with [millimeter wave] technology.”
DSS will be used to “supplement”
the high-band service.
In the most recent round of detailed
commentary, provided in March,
Verizon spokesperson Karen Schulz
explained the decision-making
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“As market demands for our
services shift, we need to be
able to shift our resources
to efficiently meet those
demands.”
Adam Koeppe, Senior Vice
President, Network Planning,
Verizon
process that will guide when and
why Verizon goes live with DSS:
“We’re really looking at the overall
customer experience and the evolu-
tion of the market. As you know, our
strategy has been to deploy a dif-
ferentiated 5G experience on [milli-
meter wave] — one that is markedly
different from the experience a cus-
tomer can receive on 4G LTE — and to
do that in public spaces and unique
locations to help drive the evolution
of the market. As the 5G ecosystem
evolves (devices with 5G and DSS
capabilities, applications that need
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5G core access, etc.) we will make
decisions on offering 5G on lower
bands using DSS, and we will look
at that in terms of the overall expe-
rience for customers on 4G and 5G.
As you have seen, the 5G low-band
experience from other providers
today is really no different than our
4G LTE experience. When we feel
it will provide the best experience
for all customers – 4G and 5G – we
will look at deploying 5G on lower
bands. Until then, we feel our mix of
nationwide 4G LTE and differenti-
ated 5G ultrawide band provides the
best experience for our customers.”
Elsewhere in the operator world,
Swisscom was an early mover in
Image courtesy of Ookla
commercializing 5G with its mid-
band spectrum and late last year
used DSS to achieve 90% popula-
tion coverage in its home market.
In November Swisscom and Erics-
son used a Qualcomm test device
to make an over-the-air data call.
At the time, the operator’s Head of
5G Patrick Weibel said DSS let’s the
service provider “best leverage the
existing frequency spectrum and
infrastructure for 4G and 5G cus-
tomers, depending on their needs.
Spectrum sharing will ensure that
Swisscom can provide extensive
5G coverage to its customers as
soon as possible.”
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commercial 5G network in Austra-
lia and has now rolled out 5G cover-
age in 32 metropolitan and regional
cities around the country. “Ericsson
Spectrum Sharing will continue to
play a crucial role in helping Tels-
tra pave the way for a faster rollout
of 5G, allowing us to serve the needs
of 4G and 5G customers in the same
location at the same time,” said
Channa Seneviratne, network and
engineering infrastructure execu-
tive at Telstra.
Other operators such Ooredoo and
Play are using Ericsson Spectrum
Sharing to expand 5G coverage in
Qatar and Poland.
Capacity loss but how much?
Perhaps the most public criticism
of DSS has come from T-Mobile’s
President of Technology Neville Ray.
Speaking in February on a quarterly
earnings calls, Ray said DSS was
“late,” called out “vendor delays,”
and added, “We’re seeing as we learn
more that, as you deploy DSS, it kind
of eats away on the net capacity of
the shared radio. And if you rush
into that now, some of the early roll-
outs and workarounds and pieces
that we’ve seen are pretty corrosive
and they would suck up capacity
just by rolling out the feature.”
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“It’s to be a tough year on DSS,”
Ray said, adding that “I’m not being
super negative about it. I’m just say-
ing it’s got challenges.” But, he said,
“We’ll keep pushing. The industry
will. The good news for us is that
we clearly, as we’ve demonstrated,
don’t have to wait for DSS for our
low-band deployment.”
As Ray alluded to, the combined
T-Mobile and Sprint will have
low-band 600 MHz, mid-band
“We’re seeing as we learn more
2.5 GHz and millimeter wave
that, as you deploy DSS, it kind
spectrum holdings available for
of eats away on the net capacity
5G without the need for either
of the shared radio.”
re-farming or DSS.
Neville Ray, President of
Frank Rayal of advisory ser-
Technology, T-Mobile
vices firm Xona Partners pub-
lished a note on DSS. Regarding
amount capacity loss, he wrote Test and measurement specialist
that it “depends on the mode and Rohde & Schwarz this year worked
implementation technique of the with MediaTek to validate co-exis-
equipment vendor. Hence, differ- tence between LTE and 5G NR when
entiation among vendors should DSS is used. The validation, among
focus on minimizing the capac- other factors, looked at how the
ity loss...On the positive side, DSS multi-broadcast single frequency
allows the network to respond network (MBSFN) blocks LTE pilot
dynamically to demand from LTE signals and inserts 5G NR synchro-
and 5G users. Operators will have nization signal blocks (SSB) and
to weigh this benefit against the tracking reference signals (TRS).
potential loss of capacity in mak- In this situation, Roessler of Rohde
ing their deployment decision. & Schwarz said the impact on net
Spectrum holdings will be key in capacity is “not that dramatic at
the decision making process.” all,” a single digit percentage, in

fact. “That depends on a lot of
parameters, including the cell load,
including the quality of service
by the devices requested in that
cell, how many LTE devices you
have, how many 5G NR devices you
have...That is of course the secret
sauce of the infrastructure ven-
dors. Scheduling algorithms in gen-
eral are proprietary so there’s not a
definite answer you can have here,”
in terms of what the exact impact
DSS implementation would have on
network capacity.
Roessler provides more detailed
commentary on this issue later in
this report.
Tombaz said it’s not correct to
think of DSS causing capacity loss
as a comparison between DSS and
nothing; the comparison has to be
between DSS and static spectrum
sharing. “Of course when you do
spectrum sharing you are shar-
ing. But if you do it dynamically,
there’s a gain” in user throughput
and spectral efficiency. “Yes, spec-
trum sharing when compared to
baseline has a small impact on user
throughput but the real value and
real comparison should be between
static sharing and dynamic shar-
ing where we see up to 3-times user
throughput gain.”
A test and measurement perspective:
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with Andreas Roessler
“I expect a roll-out of DSS in
networks worldwide starting
mid-2020. How bumpy it will be
depends on how much operators
care to test this functionality.”
Andreas Roessler, Technology
Manager, Rohde & Schwarz
To get a better understanding of how the
implementation of DSS will impact test and
measurement, RCR Wireless News conducted
a Q&A with Andreas Roessler, technology
manager for Rohde & Schwarz.
Q 
 You talked to my colleague
Kelly Hill about how DSS
will impact test and measurement
in October at MWC in Los Angeles
and said you were working with
other companies to verify and val-
idate the technology. How has that
been progressing on both the net-
work and device side?
A 
 The most significant ef-
forts are, of course, with
the various chipset manufacturers
around the world implementing
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DSS into their next generation of
modems while using our new mo-
bile radio tester platform, the R&S®
CMX500. Second, we worked with
a leading company that offers a
UE simulator for lab-based 5G NR
network testing, to mutually vali-
date the implementation of DSS on
both ends. The plan was to demon-
strate our collaboration efforts on
modem testing and network- test-
ing in two demonstrations at the
now-canceled Mobile World Con-
gress 2020. These two individual
demos would have been the results
of the recent months of testing
with our partners, demonstrating
the readiness of our R&S® CMX500.
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In addition to these fundamen-
tals, we worked with, for example,
U.S.-based Tier-1 network opera-
tors that announced the rollout
of DSS back in 2019. We provided
feedback to their DSS-related test
plans. The service providers will
use these test plans to validate DSS
functionality on devices before
they are allowed on the network.
Our team offers guidance on test
case definition, support in imple-
menting these test cases using the
R&S® CMX500 toolchain and then
validating them with pre-commer-
cial devices powered by the latest
generation of 5G modems.
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band that is nationwide available
but has only a small impact on the
LTE footprint, such as a 5 mega-
hertz channel at 800 MHz range. In
this frequency band, the operator
can now roll out 5G NR in stand-
alone mode and provide coverage,
Image courtesy of Rohde & Schwarz
but they will face capacity issues
as they cannot offer high data rates
due to lack of additional spectrum
available for 5G. This is where DSS
comes into play. Activating DSS on
the other LTE carriers in the PCS,
the AWS spectrum will allow the op-
erator to aggregate those frequency
bands with the newly deployed 5G
NR SA carrier. Consequently, while
Q 
 Can you share your per- the operator is transitioning their
spective on DSS as not just subscriber base from LTE towards
providing an NR coverage layer but 5G NR, more and more 5G devices
also helping with the transition will be on the network, and this
from non-standalone to standalone? where DSS is vital, with the smart
A 
 Today, all 5G NR deploy- algorithm it will balance the re-
ments in FR1 are non-stand- sources and thus enabling a smooth
alone mode based and using typi- transition from NSA to SA mode.
Q 
cally the 3.5 GHz bands, except for  T-Mobile’s President of
Sprint here in the U.S. Other oper- Technology Neville Ray
ators based in the U.S. and world- said on a February earnings call
wide face a significant challenge that DSS is late. So what’re you see-
if they do not have access to this ing? Is the need for the technology
new mid-band spectrum. To be able out of sync with the availability
to provide a 5G NR coverage layer, and, if so, what does that mean?
A 
service providers will clear range.  From my perspective, I
Typically, this means a frequency would not call DSS late. It

is a combination of several sophis-
ticated features that allow coex-
istence between LTE and 5G NR
using the same frequency band.
That means its implementation
takes time, and thorough testing of
the functionality is required. But
our industry seems to have been
in a rush for quite a while now. Let
us take the feet from the gas ped-
al and make sure all the features
are thoroughly standardized, im-
plemented, tested, and validated
before they are launched to the
network and made available to the
consumer. In the case of DSS, it is
important to make sure it is work-
ing properly in the given frame-
work. Otherwise, you may nega-
tively affect your LTE network.
This is something that you don’t
wish for as a network operator, as
it does not only impact your early
adopters using 5G devices but the
majority of your subscriber base
that is still on 4G LTE.
Q 
 Ray also said DSS “eats
away at net capacity of the
shared radio.” Have you observed
what he’s talking about?
A 
 We need to differentiate
here. The way that DSS op-
erates, it will reduce the base ca-
pacity on the LTE side by a certain
percentage, that is true. But oth-
erwise, the coexistence would not
work at all. We also talk here about
single-digit percentages. Let me ex-
plain: MSBFN broadcast subframes
are enabled to allow 5G NR to
transmit its synchronization signal
blocks (SSB) and tracking refer-
ence signals (TRS). Those are man-
datory for the 5G device to initially
synchronize to the downlink signal
and perform initial access proce-
dure. TRS is required to track time
and frequency. Based on the latest
network configurations I have
seen, this means three subframes
within 40 ms, in other words, 7.5%.
Those subframes would not be
available for LTE, but allow you to
have a 5G NR device using the same
frequency band. I think it is a fair
trade-off given the circumstances.
The dynamic aspect comes into
play when using standard LTE
subframes that are not allocated
as broadcast subframes. First, rate
matching around the omnipresent
cell-specific reference signals of
LTE is required. Second, the sched-
uler in the base station and its op-
timized algorithms allow the bal-
ancing between LTE-only devices
and 5G NR devices present in that
serving cell. The way to schedule
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resources in time and frequency is,
of course, the intellectual property
of the network equipment vendor,
so there is no standardized way to
do this. But the scheduling is in-
fluenced by many parameters: cell
load, type of traffic, and thus the
quality of service (QoS), priorities
and many more. For DSS, the num-
ber of LTE devices and 5G devices
which are present in that partic-
ular cell plays a vital role. The
scheduling of resources is adjusted,
based on these numbers. There-
fore, it is in my eyes very tough to
predict the impact on capacity, as
these scenarios are very dynamic
as you can imagine.
Q 
 Big picture, what are you
expecting out of DSS this
year? Do you think we’ll see it com-
mercialized in the US and if we do,
will this be a smooth rollout, or do
you foresee a bumpy road? I’m par-
ticularly thinking about the com-
plexities of field testing and site
commissioning.
A 
 There is already news from
December 2019 from Swit-
zerland and Australia that local
service providers Swisscom and
Telstra had the first roaming data
call on their 5G NR networks pow-
ered by Ericsson infrastructure,
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where DSS was enabled. Pre-com-
mercial devices from Oppo were
used, powered by Qualcomm’s
X55 modem. Experience shows
that about six to nine months af-
ter such an announcement, the
technology is fully ready and
commercialized. Therefore, I ex-
pect a roll- out of DSS in networks
worldwide starting mid- 2020.
How bumpy it will be depends on
how much operators care to test
this functionality. We are ready
and have the R&S®C MX500, the
right platform and toolchain avail-
able to enable the testing of DSS.
From a network testing and com-
missioning perspective, you need to
have the tools available that allow
you to measure LTE and 5G NR in
parallel on the same frequency
band. Luckily, Rohde & Schwarz also
has these solutions in its product
portfolio. The R&S® TSME6 univer-
sal network scanner can measure
5G NR, LTE, and all other legacy
technologies in parallel, thanks to
the smart handling concept. It was
one of the first scanners that sup-
ported MBSFN-based measurement
in LTE networks. We now reuse this
functionality and combine it with
5G NR. This enables the system
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performance engineering groups of
network operators to optimize LTE
and 5G while DSS is activated in
both networks.
The future of DSS ...
Critics may describe DSS
a transitory technology
operators who have to will tap
to scale non-standalone 5G then
jump to standalone 5G. However,
Tombaz argues that the
principle — gaining efficiency and
increasing throughput through
software-based tools — has
lasting value.
“We believe that DSS is not a
transition technology,” she said.
“You can increase the spectral
efficiency regardless of the pen-
etration of the devices. Dynamic
Spectrum Sharing always provides
higher spectral efficiency
higher user throughput compared
to static sharing. Which means
that we believe spectrum sharing
will live very long and not only
for FDD bands or between 4G and
5G but it will actually be used for
all the bands between all the tech-
nologies. I believe personally that
this will be a technology that will
definitely be discussed when we
are discussing 6G.”
Conclusion
From a consumer perspective, 5G
coverage will be a win for opera-
tors looking to drive revenue off
as of handset upgrades and enhanced
that mobile broadband. For serving up
complex, customized services, oper-
ators have to go to standalone 5G.
If your premise is that significant
core new revenue streams come from
differentiated services tailored to
the needs of particular high-value
long- enterprise and industrial use cases,
that means the sooner you can get to
standalone, the sooner you can see a
return on your network investment.
DSS provides a direct route to scal-
ing out 5G coverage and transition-
ing to standalone 5G, both of which
come with new revenue potential.
and As such, DSS will be a valuable tool
for operators in the near-term evo-
lution of 5G as well as in the context
of spectrum sharing as a long-term
mechanism for spectral efficiency
and network optimization.
Editor’s note: RCR Wireless News
Executive Editor Kelly Hill contributed
to this repor t.
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AI, 5G and IoT: Smart buildings in 2020 and beyond

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Can fixed wireless 5G disrupt the broadband
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Mobile broadband and the first responder: Use cases
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Defining the future of 5G with 3GPP Rel. 17

From smartphones to smart cars (standalone) – the

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