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Biljana Badic, Christian Drewes, Ingolf Karls and Markus Mueck, Rolling Out 5G, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1506-7_6

6. The Disruptor: The Millimeter Wave Spectrum

Biljana Badic, Christian Drewes1, Ingolf Karls1 and Markus Mueck1

(1)Intel Deutschland GmbH, MUNICH, Germany

Contributor: Alexander Maltsev

The fast development of smart and connected products, including consumer electronics, means that for the best user experience, wireless networks need to operate in frequency bands both below and above 6 GHz. The millimeter wave spectrum, as noted in previous chapters, is mainly driven by the ever-increasing number of extreme broadband applications and services. First there are many opportunities, since spectrum allocations have been and will ...

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