Telecoms lobby hails international deal to allocate spectrum to 5G

BERLIN: The telecoms industry hailed an international agreement reached on Friday to allocate high-capacity spectrum to 5G mobile services that it said would open the way to launch new applications in fields ranging from manufacturing to healthcare.

A month-long summit of the International Telecommunications Union hammered out a treaty text that will harmonise the allocation of so-called millimetre-wave frequencies in the 26 Gigahertz (GHz), 40 GHz and 66 GHz ranges.

The GSMA, which represents 750 mobile operators and another 350 firms in the industry, praised a compromise that it said would support the growth of 5G without interfering with critical services that also rely on satellite communications.