Rising to the challenge of the COVID-19 situation, working through an electronic meeting instead of the usual physical meeting, ITU-R Working Party 5D has successfully concluded its November 2020 e-meeting achieving an important milestone for IMT-2020.
Following a multi-year developmental program, the key Steps 1 to 8 of IMT 2020 process have been fulfilled. With these completions, ITU-R has determined those candidate technology submissions assessed by ITU-R to be the qualified IMT-2020 technologies and meeting the key technical criteria underpinning the IMT-2020 Vision and global 5G. These technologies now move forward to the final stage, the detailed technical specifications for the terrestrial radio interface technologies, comprising the first release of IMT-2020, are included in a new ITU-R Recommendation
“Detailed specifications of the radio interfaces of IMT-2020”, expected to be approved in January 2021.
