AT&T Gets FCC OK for 5G Tests on USC Campus

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology gave AT&T special temporary authority to operate a 5G new radio (NR) system using 28 GHz spectrum in a collaborative trial at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. “The 5G air links … will be used to test and verify the performance of various applications that require very high speeds and very low latencies, to confirm the benefits of 5G NR for such applications,” AT&T said. “The results will provide valuable information to users whose feedback could be used to enable product development and system optimization, as well as to improve future system standards and the deployment processes.”