During Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, Dean Brenner, Qualcomm’s senior vice president of spectrum strategy and technology policy, sat down with RCR Wireless News to discuss some of the major technology trends he sees as driving 5G in the near-term.
Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) has been tapped by several major operators to scale 5G coverage by using a software update to enable the simultaneous operation of LTE and 5G in the same band at the same time, essentially avoiding the need to re-farm spectrum.