Samsung, Qualcomm Claim 5G FWA vRAN First

Samsung, Qualcomm put 5G FWA on steroids

Samsung and Qualcomm have deployed 5G Power Class 1 capabilities in 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) tests The partners claim they achieved up to 10 times higher uplink throughput and a 40% coverage boost  Samsung says the capabilities have been tested in a major US network and are set to be deployed next year

Samsung, Qualcomm claim 5G FWA vRAN first

Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Technologies validated 5G Power Class 1 (PC1) capability for fixed wireless access (FWA) on a vRAN setup, in what they claimed was an industry first for the combination of higher-power device transmission and fully software-driven RAN. Power Class is a 3GPP standard which defines how strongly a device can transmit its signal, with a lower-class number indicating higher output power. The vendors explained the high…