Samsung Hosts Key 5G Standards Meeting in South Korea

摘要

Samsung Electronics announced that it hosts the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) working groups' final meeting to complete the 5G mobile communication standards in Busan from May 21st to 25th. This meeting will finalize the relevant standard technologies for 5G commercialization. About 1,500 standards experts from chipset, handset and equipment vendors including Samsung, Qualcomm, as well as major mobile operators such as Verizon, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, KT and SK Telecom will attend to complete the 5G phase-1 standard. "The first 5G standard, which includes innovative technologies developed by Samsung Electronics, will be completed at this 3GPP conference," said Seunghwan Cho, Executive Vice President of Samsung Research. "This will lead the market to commercialize 5G communication to serve as the core infrastructure for the coming fourth industrial revolution."