August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
13h 56m
English
This chapter describes the internation al process for regulating spectrum and how the present IMT spectrum has been assinged by the ITU-R. Based on the outcome of the most recent WRC, the candidate 5G spectrum is presented together with all the operating bands specified for NR in 3GPP.
Spectrum; WRC; IMT; allocation; frequency band; operating band; RF exposure
Historically, the bands for the first and second generation of mobile services were assigned at frequencies around 800–900 MHz, but also in a few lower and higher bands. When 3G (IMT-2000) was rolled out, focus was on the 2 GHz band and with the continued expansion of IMT services with 3G and 4G, new bands were added ...