Is 5G Here? Qorvo Highlights from MWC19
Honored for helping to drive the global adoption of 5G
Among the many highlights during MWC, Qorvo’s Paul Cooper was recognized by the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) as a 2019 Honorary Award recipient at its GTI Night celebration.
Paul, who is the director of carrier liaison and standards at Qorvo, has worked for several years to further the cause of the GTI 2.0 mission to establish a 5G RF front-end sub-6 GHz ecosystem, supporting member carriers in the U.S., China and Europe. The Qorvo Carrier Program team coordinated test and marketing staff to provide data in support of 3GPP New Radio (NR) standards that will drive global adoption of 5G. This award was the culmination of the hard work put in by Qorvo’s 3GPP RAN4 standards team and engineering teams providing lab test data.
We’re proud to be among a team of experts from multiple companies, including Qorvo, Skyworks, Sprint, Qualcomm and LG, that are helping our customers’ customers — the wireless carriers — address the RF challenges of 5G.
Qorvo’s Paul Cooper and a cross-company collaborative team
accept a GTI Honorary Award at MWC19
Getting ready for 5G: Antenna tuning is essential
The transition to 5G will drive a significant increase in the typical number of antennas in each handset, from 4-6 in today’s LTE handsets to 6-10 in 5G smartphones. At the same time, the space for those antennas is decreasing, creating problems for antenna efficiency and bandwidth.
To counteract these challenges, 5G handset designers will need to use antenna tuning to optimize the antenna. Aperture tuning is one method used today, but implementing it requires in-depth knowledge.
We released a new e-guide for MWC, How to Implement
Aperture Tuning: Best Practices for 4G/5G Smartphones, to help 5G
smartphone designers learn more.
What's next: How do we make 5G happen right now?
Eric Creviston, president of Qorvo Mobile Products, sums it up best: “We heard over and over during MWC that 5G handsets are being pulled in sooner than planned. Consumer awareness of 5G is very high and consumers want to ‘future-proof’ the phones they buy this year by having 5G capability, even if the network coverage is not yet in place.”
To that end, one of the questions we discussed most with our customers at MWC this year centered around one topic: How do we make 5G happen right now?
We may be in the earliest stages of the 5G rollout, but it’s
exciting to see all the hard work and collaboration from the 3GPP standards
bodies and the industry starting to come to fruition!
Are You Ready for 5G?
Learn what to expect with 5G, in our series of “5G in
:60” videos.
Watch
the Videos >
